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It still needs a gullible user to change their settings for this to work; not much to worry about here.
And not from the play store or official bank site.
If you install an APK from unreliable source you should treat your phone and account as corrupted.
It's funny imagining people saying this for anything but a phone. "You can only download from the Microsoft store or you should consider your device corrupted." Take caution, but you don't need to rely on daddy Google alone.
I don't think this person was saying they think all manual apk installs are suspect, just that installing apks from an unreliable source. There are plenty of reliable sources to get apks