QR Code & Barcode Scanner Android app includes a trojan that will steal your data including banking information

The TeaBot malware has been found in the QR Code & Barcode Scanner app available through the Google Play Store. This trojan is notorious for accessing and stealing banking information from smartphones.

Google Play app downloaded more than 10,000 times contained data-stealing RAT | Ars Technica

Here are the latest targetted applications “home banking applications, insurances applications, crypto wallets, and crypto exchanges” as listed on Ars Technica.

If you are using this app then:

  • Get rid of it
  • Get someone to scan your smartphone to ensure it has gone
  • Contact your bank(s) etc. and change passwords and other credentials as needed