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CamScanner Releases New Version After Being Pulled From Play Store For Potentially Spreading Malware To Android Devices

CamScanner has released a new update for Android after recent reports of the app delivering malware to its many users. Google immediately deleted the app from the Play Store after learning about the ...
Lifehacker

Delete Android's Malware-Filled 'CamScanner' App Right Now—and Try These Alternatives

Security researchers at Kaspersky discovered malware in various versions of the Android app “CamScanner” that were published to the Google Play store in June and July. You should remove it from your ...
Complex

Google Removes Popular CamScanner App After Detection of Malware Spread

It's a big day for malware, as reports have flooded in regarding Google's removal of a wildly popular app for reasons of the nefarious variety. CamScanner, the app in question, is a PDF creator app ...
The Next Web

Malware found in CamScanner’s document scanning Android app, which has over 100M 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 ...
ITWire

CamScanner on Android contains malware

The free version of CamScanner on Android contains malware, remove it now. CamScanner is a scan-to-PDF tool for mobile devices that has had in excess of 100M downloads and comes in a free ...
SlashGear

Popular CamScanner PDF OCR Android App Discovered With Malware Inside

It isn't news that an Android app gets past Google's security system and stays on the Play Store to spread malware to unsuspecting users. Most of the time, however, those apps are blatant copies or ...
ZDNet

Android Google Play app with 100 million downloads starts to deliver malware

Google has removed the hugely popular CamScanner PDF creator Android app from the Google Play Store after learning that it recently started delivering malware. The CamScanner app, which is published ...
Bleeping Computer

Trojan Dropper Malware Found in Android App With 100M Downloads

Researchers found a Trojan Dropper malicious module hidden within the Android app CamScanner downloaded over 100 million times by Google Play Store users. The malicious component was found by ...
Android Authority

CamScanner returns to the Play Store after getting booted for malware (Updated)

Update, September 5, 2019 (6:05PM EST): In a statement sent to Android Authority, CamScanner confirmed the app is back on the Play Store with version 5.12.5. It also urged users to download or update ...
BBC

Android CamScanner PDF app 'sent malware to phones'

CamScanner takes photographs of documents and turns them into PDFs A hugely popular Android app that takes high quality photographs of documents has been found to contain malware. CamScanner has been ...