I dunno why but somehow this reminds me of the times of my old Amiga when pretty much everything you got from anywhere was infected with something. Just back then it was for shits and giggles and now they're stealing money and private data.
If you have to use android, lineageos without the google crap and fdroid. Also use common sense and don't just blindly install anything. That last part was never any different. Same people who laugh at this will gleefully download shit from some random, unknown github and execute it.