Google has pulled the popular CamScanner app from its Play Store after it was discovered that it was spreading malware.<\/p>\n
Kaspersky discovered<\/a><\/strong> that the app – which was installed more than 100 million times – contained an advertising library with a malicious dropper component.<\/p>\n The component was detected as “Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n” and was designed to download and launch a payload from malicious servers.<\/p>\n CamScanner was a popular app among Android users which allowed them to scan documents with their smartphone camera and save the content to a PDF document.<\/p>\n The app had 1.8 million reviews, most of which were positive. However, a recent influx of negative reviews pointed to problems with the app’s user experience which prompted Kaspersky to investigate the software.<\/p>\n Google has pulled the popular CamScanner app from its Play Store after it was discovered that it was spreading malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":190160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[60707,801,45108],"class_list":["post-318049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-camscanner","tag-malware","tag-play-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Apple patches flaw that allowed iPhone jailbreak<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"