{"id":3755,"date":"2023-05-27T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/android-users-delete-this-app-its-been-secretly-recording-its-users"},"modified":"2023-05-27T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:23:33","slug":"android-users-delete-this-app-its-been-secretly-recording-its-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/android-users-delete-this-app-its-been-secretly-recording-its-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Android users: Delete this app; it\u2019s been secretly recording its users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you&#8217;re being watched&#8230; or listened to? If you&#8217;re using an Android device, prepare for a not-so-fun surprise. ESET researchers at WeLiveSecurity have uncovered an Android app secretly recording users&#8217; lives. This app is harboring AhRat, a sneaky Remote Access Trojan (RAT) built off of the open-source malware platform AhMyth. The culprit? &#8220;iRecorder \u2013 Screen Recorder.&#8221; It launched in 2021 and racked up over 55,000 installs from the Google Play Store. Yikes. This once-legitimate screen-recording app has taken a dark turn within just a year and now specializes in stealing files with specific extensions as well as eavesdropping on your microphone recordings. That&#8217;s right, folks \u2013 this app is all up in our personal space, poking its nose into matters that don&#8217;t concern it. .stk-be9fbdd{box-shadow:0 0 0 2px rgba(120,120,120,0.1) !important}.stk-be9fbdd-container{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important}.stk-be9fbdd-container:before{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important} .stk-fff85bd{margin-left:-20px !important}.stk-fff85bd .stk&#8211;svg-wrapper .stk&#8211;inner-svg svg:last-child{opacity:0.7 !important}.stk-fff85bd .stk&#8211;svg-wrapper .stk&#8211;inner-svg svg:last-child,.stk-fff85bd .stk&#8211;svg-wrapper .stk&#8211;inner-svg svg:last-child :is(g,path,rect,polygon,ellipse){fill:var(&#8211;stk-global-color-56583,#911d9c) !important} .stk-75422ff{margin-left:-17px !important}.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important;font-weight:300 !important;font-style:normal !important;font-family:&#8221;Golos Text&#8221;,Sans-serif !important}@media screen and (max-width:1023px){.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important}}&#8220;Initially, the iRecorder app did not have any harmful features. What is quite uncommon is that the application received an update containing malicious code quite a few months after its launch.&#8220; AhRat seems to be particularly focused on certain victims, hinting at an espionage angle. But even if you&#8217;re not part of any high-stakes political dealings, who wants their favorite late-night shower tunes exposed to the world? Here&#8217;s the real issue: Open-source malware platforms are fertile ground for variations like AhRat, leaving everyday Android users vulnerable to snooping digital thieves&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/delete-this-app-irecorder\/\">Android users: Delete this app; it\u2019s been secretly recording its users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you&#8217;re being watched&#8230; or listened to? If you&#8217;re using an Android device, prepare for a not-so-fun surprise. ESET researchers at WeLiveSecurity have uncovered an Android app secretly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,606,1605,300,2665,104,2898,2899,12,486,611,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}