With the integration of mobile devices into daily life, smartphones are privy to increasing
amounts of sensitive information. Sophisticated mobile malware, particularly Android …

Context Static analysis exploits techniques that parse program source code or bytecode,
often traversing program paths to check some program properties. Static analysis …

Side-channel attacks on mobile devices have gained increasing attention since their
introduction in 2007. While traditional side-channel attacks, such as power analysis attacks …

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 …

The introduction of smart mobile devices has radically redesigned user interaction, as these
devices are equipped with numerous sensors, making applications context-aware. To further …

The emergence of malicious apps poses a serious threat to the Android platform. Most types
of mobile malware rely on network interface to coordinate operations, steal users' private …

According to the Symantec and F-Secure threat reports, mobile malware development in
2013 and 2014 has continued to focus almost exclusively (~ 99%) on the Android platform …

In this work we share the first account for the forensic analysis, security and privacy of
Android vault applications. Vaults are designed to be privacy enhancing as they allow users …

With Android devices users are allowed to install third-party applications from various open
markets. This raises security and privacy concerns since the third-party applications may be …

With the proliferation of Android-based devices, malicious apps have increasingly found
their way to user devices. Many solutions for Android malware detection rely on machine …