Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the
users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly …

Third-party libraries on Android have been shown to be security and privacy hazards by
adding security vulnerabilities to their host apps or by misusing inherited access rights …

Although there are over 1,900,000 third-party Android apps in the Google Play Store, little is
understood about how their security and privacy characteristics, such as dangerous …

It is reported recently that legitimate libraries are repackaged for propagating malware. An in-
depth analysis of such potentially-harmful libraries (PhaLibs), however, has never been …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) as essential parts in the mobile ecosystem have become one of
the most significant contributors to the huge success of Android, which facilitate the fast …

The Android ecosystem today is a growing universe of a few billion devices, hundreds of
millions of users and millions of applications targeting a wide range of activities where …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential
part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one …

Many studies focused on detecting and measuring the security and privacy risks associated
with the integration of advertising libraries in mobile apps. These studies consistently …

Cryptography is increasingly being used in mobile applications to provide various security
services; from user authentication, data privacy, to secure communications. However, there …

We provide a detailed analysis of two largely unexplored aspects of the security decisions
made by the Android operating system during the app installation process: update integrity …