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 ...

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 ...

Lavabird Ltd.'s Barcode Scanner was an Android app that had been available on Google's official app repository for years. The app, accounting for over 10 million installs, offered a QR code reader and ...

“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 barcode scanning app for Android with more than 10 million downloads under its belt has been found to be the culprit of unwanted ads and pop-ups when using the default browser. This was not the case ...

Users of a barcode scanner app on the Google Play Store got a nasty surprise in December when it began generating adware on potentially millions of Android phones. The free app, known simply as ...

Home Assistant Android update 2026.6.2 beta patches a URI intent-hijacking vulnerability that could let attackers reach ...