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SmartTube, the popular 3rd-party YouTube app for Fire TV and Android\/Google TV devices, has announced<\/a> that its digital signature has been exposed. As a result, it appears that both Google<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> have started auto-uninstalling the app from streaming devices. <\/p>\n An app\u2019s digital signature is what Android uses to verify an app is from the same\/original developer. Since SmartTube\u2019s signature has been exposed, it means anyone can create a new version of the app that fools Android into thinking it\u2019s from the real developer. A malicious person could, for example, make a version of the app that steals your Google credentials that are already logged into the real SmartTube app.<\/p>\n If your SmartTube app has not been automatically uninstalled by your device\u2019s OS, you may continue to safely use it, but do not install any updates to the app<\/strong>. SmartTube\u2019s developer will be releasing a new version of the app that uses a new digital signature. Once it\u2019s available through the official GitHub release page<\/a>, you will need to install the new version of SmartTube and uninstall the old version. The new version will not replace the existing version. It will install alongside the existing version, which is why you will need to manually delete the old version.<\/p>\n As long as you don\u2019t manually install any malicious SmartTube updates, your data and personal information are safe. SmartTube has taken down all of its existing APK files. You should not install any SmartTube apps or updates until the new version with the new signature is released through the official GitHub release page<\/a>. Any existing APK using the old signature can be compromised, and there is no way to tell, so it is best to wait for the new release. There are already guides and instructions floating around to \u201cfix\u201d and restore SmartTube, but it is best not to follow them and just wait for the new release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SmartTube, the popular 3rd-party YouTube app for Fire TV and Android\/Google TV devices, has announced that its digital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[188024,119049,3907,122504,188025,53,16,15,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-598581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amazazon-fire-tv","9":"tag-android-tv","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-google-tv","12":"tag-smarttube","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115625634050611650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}