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If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...

Disguising itself as the innocuously-titled “Android Developer Verifier” (ADV) process, this trojan horse runs surreptitiously in the background as a system service with full root privileges, quietly awaiting an activation signal. The service cannot be blocked, disabled, or removed. Unlike a commonplace bit of malware, this extraordinary strain won’t be detected and neutralized by Play Protect (the malware scanning and remediation service that is installed on all Android Certified devices). In fact, Play Protect is itself the vector through which this virus is transmitted and installed.

  • kbal@fedia.ioOP
    19·
    14 hours ago

    The hacker news discussion is surprisingly not bad. Very few Google stans coming in to shill for their corporate masters, and they’re getting soundly ignored and downvoted.

    • MotoRider3436@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      13 hours ago

      Man, I just moved here from reddit and it’s so refreshing to have actual intelligent discussion instead of being shouted down by bootlickers about how no one cares for your pro privacy opinion.

      It’s not a bad thing to have a higher barrier to entry for the Fediverse

  • verstra@programming.dev
    4·
    10 hours ago

    Which mobile OS are you guys using? How well do they work? How do they compare to stock android?

    I’m thinking about flashing /e/OS over Android.

    • foreverknew@lemmy.zip
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I’m currently using /e/os as there are no official custom Roms for my phone and they offer a GSI version (works on a wide variety of devices). For me it runs flawlessly, but I don’t use any apps dependent on Google Play Services, so YMMV.

      I think their default apps are very usable and having MicroG on board for location services is pretty handy. Their contacts/calendar/note syncing via Murena also make the user experience quite seemless.

      I’d recommend it.

      Edit: If you have any questions about the OS, feel free to ask away

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    This isn’t new.

    How many windows app promised security, more ram, cleaning windows, etc…

    Only to be malware?