Adware is the most common type of malware. While considered not harmful in nature, it
disrupts the user experience and generates unwanted revenue. Adware is also difficult to …

In recent years, mobile devices have become commonly used not only for voice
communications but also to play a major role in our daily activities. Accordingly, the number …

Adware, an advertising-supported software, becomes a type of malware when it
automatically delivers unwanted advertisements to an infected device, steals user …

Most Android smartphone applications, or apps, are free—to generate revenue,
advertisements are displayed when an app is used. Billions of dollars are lost annually due …

Repackaged apps are the biggest challenge in the Android ecosystem. Many tools are
available in the market to detect the repackaged apps. Most of the tools and recent …

We suggest a collaborative approach for revealing malicious behaviors on Android
smartphones by which monitoring four observable parts:(i) network usages (ii) network …

We propose AppFA, an Application Flow Analysis approach, to detect malicious Android
applications (simply apps) on the network. Unlike most of the existing work, AppFA does not …

Malware has become a significant problem on the Android platform. To defend against
Android malware, researchers have proposed several on‐device detection methods …

Android has become the most popular mobile platform due to its openness and flexibility.
Meanwhile, it has also become the main target of massive mobile malware. This …

Most Android smartphone apps are free; in order to generate revenue, the app developers
embed ad libraries so that advertisements are displayed when the app is being used …