CamScanner Android App Removed from Play Store

Uninstall your Camscanner app Android users because Kaspersky has launched a statement stating that initially the app may have been useful, but present updated versions consist of malware in the system. The app initially allowed in app purchases or collected its revenues from advertisement, and wasn’t created with any malicious intentions whatsoever, but a present study by the security firm researchers state otherwise.

The researchers have claimed that the app detected a module called “Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n.  “The module is a Trojan Dropper that means the module extracts and runs another malicious module from an encrypted file included in the app’s resources. This “dropped” malware, in turn, is a Trojan Downloader that downloads more malicious modules depending on what its creators are up to at the moment,” explained the report. With this module apps may sign up users for paid versions already. Google has removed the app from play store and it is recommended that everyone uninstalls the application.

This is quite an alarm since this raises potential questions about the existence of privacy and security in the cyber world.