Google Removes Malicious App Downloaded Over 100 million Times

San Francisco: Google has removed a hugely popular Android app on Play Store that scans files and converts them into PDFs and has been installed over 100 million times. After cybersecurity firm Kaspersky found the problem with the app called CamScanner, it reported the Malicious App to Google which has taken it off from Play Store. “The popular CamScanner — the phone PDF creator app — caught our attention. The developers position it as a solution for scanning and managing digitized documents, but negative user reviews that have been left over the past month have indicated the presence of unwanted features,” said Kaspersky researchers Igor Golovin and Anton Kivva in a blog post. (IANS)

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