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.

According to a new report, popular Android app Barcode Scanner has been removed from the Google Play Store after it was outed as malware.

TECH How to scan a QR code with your iPhone or Android phone (no apps needed) QR codes are those pixelated squares you see in restaurants, advertisements, stores, food packaging, business cards ...

A popular barcode-scanning app for Android carried a severe vulnerability that allowed anyone easy access to a database full of sensitive data, as long as they knew where to look.

Barcode scanner applications are usually quite simple, and have one purpose. Still, some of these apps offer more than others, and then there’s the design aspect to consider, as not many of them ...

It’s probably the Barcode Scanner app you’re thinking of, as it’s been available for Android for practically as long as the operating system has has existed.

A quick, relatively accurate barcode scanner from the company that provides the basic scanning functionality for many other apps on this list, including Amazon’s, eBay’s and FoodScanner’s.

ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android, is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. Hundreds of users are leaving 1-star ...