Google pulls popular app after it spread malware

JORDAN VALINSKY, CNN BUSINESS
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by JORDAN VALINSKY, CNN BUSINESS
Google pulls popular app after it spread malware
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Google has removed a popular app after researchers discovered it was spreading malware.

The troubled app is CamScanner, a program that scans files and converts them into PDFs.

Researchers at security firm Kaspersky had found a number of negative reviews on the app’s Google Play profile that complained the app had the “presence of unwanted features,” according to a blog post. The