An Android app started secretly recording users almost a year after it was listed on Google Play

A phone with a recording app installed and running on screen Innocent-seeming apps can be trojan horses for your information. | Image: Amar Toor / The Verge

An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder began as an innocent screen recording app but turned evil nearly a year after it was first released, as detailed by Ars Technica. The app first came out in September 2021, but after an update the following August, it began recording a minute of audio every 15 minutes and forwarding those recordings, through an encrypted link, to the developer’s server. The whole thing is documented in Read Entire Article

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