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Malware found in document scanning Android app with 100 million downloads

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Malware found in document scanning Android app with 100 million downloads

Another day, another instance of Android malware found on the Google Play app store. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab said they found an app with 100 million downloads that housed a malicious module that then pushed ads or downloaded apps surreptitiously onto compromised Android devices. The malicious component was found by the researchers after they were alerted to ‘suspicious behavior’ in the free version of the popular document scanning app CamScanner following a rash of negative reviews left by users to avoid using the app. “CamScanner was actually a legitimate app, with no malicious intensions whatsoever, for quite some time,” Kaspersky noted.…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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