Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update

Late last December we started getting a distress call from our forum patrons. Patrons were experiencing ads that were opening via their default browser out of nowhere. The odd part is none of them had recently installed any apps, and the apps they had installed came from the Google Play store. Then one patron, who goes by username Anon00, discovered that it was coming from a long-time installed app, Barcode Scanner. An app that has 10,000,000+ installs from Google Play! We quickly added the detection, and Google quickly removed the app from its store. Simple scanner turns evil Many of the patrons had the app installed on their mobile devices for long periods of time (one user had it installed for several years).

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