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That's a little presumptuous - isn't it likely that CamScanner was somehow compromised? This could happen in the source code or in the build and release pipeline.

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...or they just included some [pupular ad library] that has gone bad, and noone checked.

Then it is a police matter...

Yeah, we can't just remove the app and think that would fix the issue.

Otherwise this is bound to happen again.

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