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CamScanner With Over 100 Million Downloads Removed From Play Store

CamScanner With Over 100 Million Downloads Removed From Play Store

CamScanner, a PDF converter application, has been expelled from the Google Play Store after it was found to accompany a promoting malware. Kaspersky analysts found that ongoing adaptations of the CamScanner application for Android sent with a vindictive Trojan-Dropper module that could show intrusive advertisements and marked clients up for paid memberships. Before being removed, CamScanner had in excess of 100 million downloads.

Analysts at Kaspersky said that the CamScanner application was a perfect, authentic application for a long while. The application demonstrated promotions for monetization and furthermore permitted in-application buys. Notwithstanding, with ongoing renditions of CamScanner, the application was found to accompany an advertising library that contained a noxious module.

This module, known as Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n has been recently found in some preinstalled applications on Chinese cell phones. Kaspersky says that the module can concentrate and run another noxious module from an encoded record that is incorporated into the application’s assets. As the name recommends, the dropped malware is a Trojan-Downloaded that downloads increasingly noxious modules. On the off chance that you have CamScanner downloaded on your Android gadget as of now, you ought to remove it until a fixed rendition gets recorded on the Play Store. In the interim, it would seem that the CamScanner application for iOS is okay and malware-free and is accessible for download in the App Store.

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