An Android mobile application has been discovered with a Trojan horse inside it whose purpose was to record users through the mobile phone’s microphone.
When installing an application from the Google Play Store, the last thing that comes to mind is the possibility that it includes a Trojan horse designed to constantly spy on us. Unfortunately, this situation is much more frequent and the latest example comes from an application that has been in the Play Store for almost two years.
The name is iRecorder and, in case you have it installed on your Android mobile phone, the best thing you can do is remove it right away.. Google has already done what it should and the application has been removed from the Play Store. What is the danger of this application? As it has been possible to see in a report, ESET hides a Trojan inside.
The most normal thing is that the applications that you install on your mobile phone do not include any type of Trojan so, based on this, the application is a problem for your security. But the problem doesn’t stop there, since what the iRecorder application would be doing is using your microphone to spy on you.
Yes, the microphone of your Android phone would be the means chosen to get hold of your data. The application made recordings of the audio recorded by the microphone every 15 minutes and sent these recordings to the servers so that they were recorded there. Come on, a complete violation of privacy.
This Android application has a Trojan that takes advantage of the microphone to record you
The iRecorder app accumulated more than 50,000 downloads, a more than considerable figure for an application designed to record screens, since it is a feature that many Android mobile manufacturers offer. But this is not the most curious thing about this application that has taken advantage of users since at the beginning it did not include a Trojan.
In fact, when it was launched it was one more application among the thousands of applications found in the Play Store. In it report it is specified that The Trojan arrived when the application was mature enough not to raise any suspicions.with version 1.3.8 being the exact time of this.
Taking this situation into account, a huge stir has been raised about the security that Google offers with its applications in the Play Store. Yes, it is true that it acts and deletes the applications that have some type of malware. But this is done once it has been discovered by other means and not by its security measures.
