Barcode Scanner, a popular Android app, slipped undesirable code into an update in early December, an update that had the potential to reach more than 10m devices though actual distribution is believed to be far less.
Several weeks later, Google removed the app from Google Play. Those who downloaded the software and accepted the update may still have on their mobile devices the problematic code, which appears to open the browser and visits websites all by itself.
Barcode Scanner, distributed by a London-based company called LavaBird, received an update on December 4, 2020, that appears to have introduced the code in question, according to Nathan Collier, a security researcher at Malwarebytes. LavaBird's now-banished Android app shouldn't be confused with ZXing Team's Barcode Scanner that remains in the Play Store.
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