That’s because THEY FOUND MALWARE IN A RELEASE i saw a post about it yesterday. Think the devs have fixed it now but BEWARE if you had sensitive info on your device.
SmartTube’s developer told me that the computer used to create the APKs for the project’s official GitHub page was compromised by malware. As a result, some official SmartTube releases were unintentionally released with malware.
Users who may have installed the malware-infected versions of the app are recommended to reset their devices and take additional steps to review their YouTube and Google account information.
https://www.androidauthority.com/smarttube-malware-fix-3620773/
If you were logged into anything, probably best to change your password to be safe (and delete all sessions to unauth every device)!
Next time you see an alert like that, definitely research it before trying to work around it and install possibly infected software (i know there possibly wasn’t any news when the alert went up, but i’d way a day then look it up again before continuing).
Updated my shield and play protect disabled smartube, WTF. Fyi go to github and update smartube, because the original version signature was compromised and the developer has an alternate version.
I had this shit the other day. Legit laughed out loud.
That’s because THEY FOUND MALWARE IN A RELEASE i saw a post about it yesterday. Think the devs have fixed it now but BEWARE if you had sensitive info on your device.
Could be one of the fake ones. Need to get it from the drv’s git, not the websites claiming to be him.
The news post going around: https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it/
The new versions should be clean however:
If you were logged into anything, probably best to change your password to be safe (and delete all sessions to unauth every device)!
Next time you see an alert like that, definitely research it before trying to work around it and install possibly infected software (i know there possibly wasn’t any news when the alert went up, but i’d way a day then look it up again before continuing).
Updated my shield and play protect disabled smartube, WTF. Fyi go to github and update smartube, because the original version signature was compromised and the developer has an alternate version.