Today, when smartphone use is extremely popular, privacy is much more important than in previous years. Applications that you download to your phone without carefully examining them or software updates to these applications from time to time allow malicious developers to access your information through the application.
Finally, a scandal exposed by a cybersecurity expert revealed that an application violated privacy principles by constantly listening to the environment in the background. According to the expert’s statement, the application in question regularly transmits these audio recordings to the application developer. Here are the details
So far, 50 thousand application users’ phones have been tapped!
According to a statement by a cybersecurity expert named Lukas Stefanko iRecorder Screen Recorder screen recording app called every 15 minutes times It records ambient sound. The application, which encrypts the recorded voice recordings and uploads them to an external server, silently collects the private information of thousands of users.
The Android application called iRecorder Screen Recorder started to be offered to the user experience in September 2021. Although it can be described as an innocent application that only serves its purpose at the time of its publication, it started to record user data after an update in August 2022. The malicious application, which was downloaded and used by 50 thousand users, was quickly removed from Google Play after the scandal emerged.
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With the Google Play Store’s rapid removal of the malicious application, downloads by new users who are not aware of the danger were prevented. However, 50 thousand users who are actively using the application need to take precautions quickly by providing the necessary controls.
To protect your privacy, we recommend that you check the current permissions of the applications on your phone, turn off automatic updates and review the permissions in each update, and be careful to only download applications published by trusted developers. So, what do you guys think about this issue? Do you think the measures we can take for privacy are enough to protect us? You can share your views with us in the comments section.