Remove this app from your phone right away because it is using the microphone to spy on you
The last thing you want to consider when installing an app from the Google Play Store is that it might contain a Trojan horse that is set up to continuously spy on you. The most recent example, which is regrettably far more frequent, comes from an app that has been on the Google Play Store for a number of years.
The best course of action is to uninstall iRecorder right away if it's still installed on your Android phone. The app has already been taken down from the Google Play Store, as Google should have done. What risk does this app pose? A Trojan horse is concealed within, according to an ESET report.
Your microphone was being used by the iRecorder screen recording app to spy on you. Yes, the best way to get your data was through the microphone on your Android phone. Every fifteen minutes, the app recorded the audio that was picked up by the microphone and transmitted it to servers for storage.
Because many Android phone manufacturers offer the feature, iRecorder has amassed over 50,000 downloads, which is a noteworthy amount for a screen recording app. However, that's not the most interesting aspect of this app, which took advantage of users because it didn't have a Trojan horse in the first place.
Actually, it was just another app on the Google Play Store, with thousands of others, when it was first released. According to the report, the Trojan only appeared in the most recent version, 1.3.8, and it did so when the app was sufficiently developed to not raise any red flags.
The security Google offers for its apps on the Google Play Store has been the subject of much debate in light of this circumstance. Indeed, Google does eliminate malicious apps, but only after they are found through other channels rather than by its own security controls.