Two apps on Google play discovered to PC's own mic to record victims

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Two apps named Superclean and DroidCleaner posed as software that claimed to clean up your Android smartphone or tablet were Uncovered last month by Kaspersky to be pieces of malware designed to snoop on your conversations by infecting your computer.

Programs worked by downloading files that automatically execute after plugging an Android device into a Windows PC. After executing, the malware would trigger the audio recorder function in Windows, write the information to a file, and then send the contents to the malware distributor.

While it might not make sense why someone would want to record a PC user's conversation, the fact that such hack is  possible leaves us wonder just how much more one can do.





source: cnet