This Barcode Scanner app infected over 10 million users with virus update, delete it from your phone now.

This Barcode Scanner app infected over 10 million users with virus update, delete it from your phone now. 

The report stated that the patrons were experiencing ads that were opening via their default browser out of nowhere.

HIGHLIGHTS

Barcode Scanner has been faraway from Google Play Store after it infected users with an epidemic .

• The virus was detected by Malwarebytes.
• The app has over 10,000,000+ installs from Google Play.

Barcode Scanner has been faraway from Google Play Store after it infected users with an epidemic . The virus was detected by Malwarebytes. The report stated that the patrons were experiencing ads that were opening via their default browser out of nowhere. Google was quick to get rid of the app from Play Store after the virus was detected on the app. The app has over 10,000,000+ installs from Google Play.

“Late last December we started getting a distress signal 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 therefore the apps that they had installed came from the Google Play store. Then one patron, who goes by username Anon00, discovered that it had been 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,” the Malwarebytes report stated.

The report stated that the users had the app installed on their mobile devices for long periods of your time . However, Barcode Scanner turned malicious after an update in December. it's being reported that the update occurred on December 4, 2020.

It was discovered that the recent app update included a Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR" code that redirected users to third-party ad site on the smartphone’s default browser.

“In the case of Barcode Scanner, malicious code had been added that wasn't in previous versions of the app. Furthermore, the added code used heavy obfuscation to avoid detection. To verify this is often from an equivalent app developer, we confirmed it had been signed by an equivalent digital certificate as previous clean versions. due to its malign intent, we jumped past our original detection category of Adware straight to Trojan, with the detection of Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR,” the report stated.

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Although the app has been faraway from the Play Store, it's not been faraway from the affected mobile devices.So if you would like to save lots of your phone from getting infected, you'll need to manually remove the app else it might still display ads.

“It is frightening that with one update an app can turn malicious while foundering the radar of Google Play Protect. it's baffling to me that an app developer with a well-liked app would turn it into malware,” Nathan caller of malwarebytes said within the blog.