Popular Android Screen Recorder iRecorder App Revealed as Trojan

According to ESET, iRecorder was infected with a variant of AhMyth, which is an open-source remote administration tool capable of extracting sensitive data from Android devices.

The iRecorder app has been removed from the Google Play Store, but it is still available on third-party app stores, so be careful!

iRecorder – Screen Recorder, a once legitimate Android application, has now been found to harbour a dangerous Android remote access Trojan (RAT). Cybersecurity experts from ESET made this discovery, uncovering a variant of AhMyth, an open-source remote administration tool capable of extracting sensitive data from Android devices.

Initially launched in September 2021 and boasting over 50,000 installs, iRecorder – Screen Recorder appeared to be a harmless screen-recording app. However, the latest analysis by ESET has revealed the presence of a malicious code, referred to as AhRat by the researchers, within the app’s recent update to version 1.3.8 ...