Android Game Doubles as Spy Application...

The application, known as Tap Snake, is a version of a 1970s video game called ‘Snake.’ What u probably didn't know, was that Tap Snake is also a client for a commercial spying application known as GPS Spy. Tap Snake looks like an average game, but there are two hidden features. First, the game won't exit. Once installed, it runs in the background forever, and restarts automatically when you boot the phone. And secondly, every 15 minutes the game secretly reports the GPS location of the phone to a server.

Once the game is installed, an attacker with physical access to the Android device can program the game to report the device’s location to another system running GPS Spy. While the game is free, GPS Spy costs $4.99, and install the Tap Snake game on whatever device u want to spy on.  GPS Spy downloads the data from the device running Tap Snake and displays it as location points in Google Maps.  For it to work, an email address and “key” must be typed into the phone running AndroidOS.Tapsnake, The same registration information must later be typed into the phone running GPS Spy.

Like all Android applications, Tap Snake requires users grant permission for it to do what it does so well.