Again .. a malicious program was discovered in one of the famous Play Store applications

The online store "Play Store" is considered one of the most protected Google applications, but despite this we constantly hear about the existence of applications that contain malicious and malicious software, despite the high protection and the great efforts made by Google, which is the same thing that Applies to new, discovered software.

The specialized security company that issues the famous program "Malwarebytes" confirmed its discovery of an application on the online store of Google, "Google Play Store", which is the application that contains a number of malicious and harmful programs, and it concerns a popular Indian application known as "Barcode Scanner", but the dangerous one. In this matter, this application has been downloaded more than ten million times by Android users.

And Malwarebytes indicated that users noticed changes in the behavior of the Barcode Scanner application, after the application's update in December of last year, as it confirmed that the application developers intentionally included their application for a Trojan horse malware, and the goal is Running a web browser on their smartphone on its own to view certain websites or install certain apps due to alleged security issues.

Malwarebytes confirms that after informing Google of this, the Barcode Scanner application was removed from the Play Store, but the problem is that the developer is still displaying other applications in the Google online store, which means that these entities may try again the same technology with these applications.