The malware was being circulated by a cybercriminal group over Telegram under the guise of legitimate applications such as ChatGPT, the Opera Mini browser, premium versions of YouTube, and other popular apps and websites.
Play Protect won’t take action on that, though. Installed apps will only get purged when Google actually detects a virus.
I’m surprised the Poweramp dev still hasn’t updated their storage API calls, picking one or more directories to play content from has been the norm for two or three years now. I guess it’s a backwards compatibility thing for existing customers?
I think Play Protect does sometimes throw a “installing whatsappro2022crackedbysteve.APK can be dangerous” prompt, but you can just click through that.
Play Protect won’t take action on that, though. Installed apps will only get purged when Google actually detects a virus.
I’m surprised the Poweramp dev still hasn’t updated their storage API calls, picking one or more directories to play content from has been the norm for two or three years now. I guess it’s a backwards compatibility thing for existing customers?
I think Play Protect does sometimes throw a “installing whatsappro2022crackedbysteve.APK can be dangerous” prompt, but you can just click through that.