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 ...

One of the most popular third-party Android utilities — Barcode Scanner — with over 10 million Play Store installs has been outed as adware. A new report from Malwarebytes has found that the Barcode ...

A popular app has been removed from Google Play after it was discovered to have delivered trojanized malware onto millions of users’ phones via an update. Until recently, Barcode Scanner was a ...

After a December update, the Barcode Scanner Android app from Lavabird injected annoying pop-up ads inside users' mobile browsers, according to Malwarebytes. Users of a barcode scanner app on the ...

You can scan a barcode with your iPhone by using a third-party app. Currently, there are no built-in apps that can read ...

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 ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...