The Verge
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. And there’s just no motive, to make an app for 13 years just to stick malware in at the end is an implausibly long game,” he says.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
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. Read more.
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SecureWorld News
MAY 4, 2023
Its malware is specifically geared toward ESXi hosts, as it contains two related commands. RaaS was brought up as a key problem during a recent BarCode podcast recorded at SecureWorld Philadelphia last month. Find the session recording on the BarCode website , on Apple Podcasts , or on YouTube.
Network World
AUGUST 3, 2016
Many of the large payment card breaches that hit retail and hospitality businesses in recent years were the result of attackers infecting point-of-sale systems with memory-scraping malware. They typically run Windows and have peripherals like keyboards, touch screens, barcode scanners and card readers with PIN pads.
A Screw's Loose
JUNE 26, 2013
No matter where I am, it becomes much easier to find the numbers from the app (which will display the barcode if there is one to be scanned) then to have a keychain or wallet filled with all the different cards. I store all of my hotel, supermarket, drug store and rental car numbers in it. Who wants to be bothered carrying that around.
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