According to a cybersecurity company, a well-known Android screen recording app with thousands of downloads on Google Playy, was discovered spying on users.
The app was involved in stealing microphone recordings and other documents present on the devices. After a search by ESET, it was discovered that the Android app “iRecorder – Screen Recorder” introduced malicious code as an update approximately one year after it entered Google Play.
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According to ESET, this code allowed the app to secretly record one minute of ambient audio from the device microphone every 15 minutes, as well as stealing documents, web pages, and media files from device.
Initially, when it was released in 2021, the app did not have this code. Only after updates it started stealing user data.
Google Play app stealing user data
The app creators generated malicious code in the app, recognized as AhRat, a custom variant of a trojan open source remote access tool known as AhMyth.
You trojans remote access, or RATs, exploit widespread access to victims' devices and can provide remote control, as well as having similar functionality to spyware It is stalkerware.
The code was introduced approximately one year after it was listed on Google Play. According to ESET, the code was able to steal voice data, documentation and even access the internet from that contaminated device.
After being detected with the malicious code, the app was removed from the Google Play Store.
If you were one of the many users who accessed the app, experts recommend deleting it from your device immediately. By the time it was taken down from the app store, the malicious app had already been downloaded over 50,000 times.
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