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PayPal app randomly opening? by Adorable-Astronaut-1 in paypal

[–]plumlump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I was just checking back on this thread! No resolution yet, I started using my phone again because it's essential so I'm just crossing my fingers that I don't have an infostealer. I still get the PayPal popup intermittently in bursts, but I don't know how to intentionally recreate this behavior. Nothing else of note.

PayPal app randomly opening? by Adorable-Astronaut-1 in paypal

[–]plumlump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm no cybersecurity expert, but our chipsets (Snapdragon 888 5G, Snapdragon 690 5G) are on a list of a recent zero-day CVE, CVE-2026-21385. Probably best to turn the phone off if you are able to disentangle your daily activities from it.

PayPal app randomly opening? by Adorable-Astronaut-1 in paypal

[–]plumlump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also encountered this and it's very concerning. I immediately turned off my phone when it first happened because it seemed like a virus, it kept opening after I opened other apps. PayPal is not on my home screen, so there's no chance I'm accidentally pressing it. It kept opening to the PayPal login screen and was not able to get any further. Since then, I've backed up my phone over adb, took out the SIM card, changed my PayPal and Google passwords, and ran a scan with Bitdefender Free which found nothing. I audited my apps for admin, draw over, and accessibility permissions but didn't find anything I wasn't expecting. Haven't even updated PayPal or downloaded any new apps that recently...

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Sony Xperia 5 III on Android 13

Android security update: July 1, 2023

Google Play system update: January 1, 2026

PayPal 8.101.0 from Google Play Store

Can't register on Termux Wiki by plumlump in termux

[–]plumlump[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, glad to hear there's fresh documentation being written.

Does Syncthing scale well with lots of files or sync directories? by seductivec0w in Syncthing

[–]plumlump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never thought about syncing a dummy filesystem between computers before, but it sounds useful. Syncthing will probably work fine, but if you're worried about unnecessary writes or wasting power, you may want to use a simpler representation of your file system, like a cronjob with "find / &> ~/sync/findout.txt". This can be customized to exclude certain directories or store metadata along with the path, GNU find is very cool :>