Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes
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An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said.
The app, titled iRecorder