Researchers from the "Kaspersky Lab" found Trojan in the popular Android-application CamScanner. With the help of virus hackers can show on smartphones infected with annoying advertisements and even steal money from users.
CamScanner is designed for scanning documents. It was published in 2010 and has been downloaded over 100 million times. Spread the virus application is only recently beginning, but, apparently, it has managed to infect a lot of devices.
The Trojan downloads a malicious server malicious code and run it on your smartphone. After that hackers can make the device a variety of actions. For example, a user to sign on paid services without his knowledge.
Now CamScanner can not be downloaded from Google Play, although it is there and available. The latest version of the app developers have removed Trojan: you can update the program and continue to use it. But it is better to remove CamScanner: who knows what other vulnerabilities may be in it.
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