A popular Android barcode scanner app has been outed as malicious. Barcode Scanner was discovered to harbor a trojan that opens bogus sites and prompts app downloads. The app has since been removed ...

Unlike some of the fake or malicious Android apps we cover on occasion, Barcode to Sheet is a legitimate productivity app. Google Play shows that the app has been downloaded over 100,000 times and has ...

Google updated APIs responsible for the barcode and QR code scanning to allow them to auto-zoom when a possible barcode or QR code is detected. This feature could soon roll out to Android 13 and above ...

Update July 25, 07:04 EDT: Revised story to list "The space team" as the threat actor behind the malicious code. Google has removed a popular Android barcode scanner app with over 10 million installs ...

Circle to Search on Android is a powerful feature that let's you quickly search for on-screen content. Google is working on adding barcode support to Circle to Search for easy barcode scanning. Google ...

Google's Circle to Search is gaining a barcode scanning feature, with Google app v15.25.32 revealing how it works. In addition to scanning these codes, users will get a preview or the URL of the ...

“When good apps go bad” seems to be the name of the digital game nowadays. The Great Suspender browser extension recently showed its true colors, and now joining it in malware purgatory is the ...

A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to remove ...

It is not new for an app available on the Google Play Store to be caught infecting millions of Android smartphones across the globe. Well, the latest one to join the list of malware apps is a popular ...