We present Apposcopy, a new semantics-based approach for identifying a prevalent class of
Android malware that steals private user information. Apposcopy incorporates (i) a high …

The wide popularity of Android systems has been accompanied by increase in the number
of malware targeting these systems. This is largely due to the open nature of the Android …

Android has been a major target of malicious applications (malapps). How to detect and
keep the malapps out of the app markets is an ongoing challenge. One of the central design …

Android malware evolution has been neglected by the available data sets, thus providing a
static snapshot of a non-stationary phenomenon. The impact of the time variable has not had …

Application markets such as Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store have played an
important role in the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices. However, keeping …

The extensive use of smartphones has been a major driving force behind a drastic increase
of malware attacks. Covert techniques used by the malware make them hard to detect with …

Android platform has dominated the markets of smart mobile devices in recent years. The
number of Android applications (apps) has seen a massive surge. Unsurprisingly, Android …

Today's smartphone users face a security dilemma: many apps they install operate on
privacy-sensitive data, although they might originate from developers whose trustworthiness …

The number of malicious Android apps is increasing rapidly. Android malware can damage
or alter other files or settings, install additional applications, and so on. To determine such …

Mobile malware threats have recently become a real concern. In this paper, we evaluate the
state-of-the-art commercial mobile antimalware products for Android and test how resistant …