A popular android screen recording app has been caught spying on its users, including recording their conversations and stealing documents from their phones, cybersecurity researchers report. 7NEWS
discovered malware had been uploaded to the Android iRecorder — Screen Recorder app, which has been downloaded more than 50,000 times.
ESET says Android users who installed the app prior to then would have unknowingly exposed their devices to the malware, named AhRat after the malware AhMyth on which it is based, when they updated the app. The sneaky malware uses the victim’s microphone to take a snippet of audio every 15 minutes to send it back to the server.
Once it is downloaded, users are asked to give their permission for iRecorder to access their phone’s photo, media and files, which researchers say does not initially come across as suspicious as it is a recording app.
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