In the age of increasing mobile and smart connectivity, malware poses an ever evolving
threat to individuals, societies and nations. Anti-malware companies are often the first and …

Steganography describes techniques and algorithms for hiding secret information in a cover
medium such as images, audio or text files. Malware that makes use of steganographic …

IoT devices have brought invaluable convenience to our daily life. However, their
pervasiveness also amplifies the impact of security vulnerabilities. Many popular …

Millions of users nowadays rely on their smartphones to process sensitive data through apps
from various vendors and sources. Therefore, it is vital to assess these apps for security …

Malware authors often use cryptographic tools such as XOR encryption and block ciphers
like AES to obfuscate part of the malware to evade detection. Use of cryptography may give …

Recent years have witnessed the interesting trend that modern mobile apps perform more
and more likely as user-to-user platforms, where app users can be freely and conveniently …

The popularization of the Android platform and the growing number of Android applications
(apps) that manage sensitive data turned the Android ecosystem into an attractive target for …

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers.
As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps …

Man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers have full control over the system on which the attacked
software runs, and try to break the confidentiality or integrity of assets embedded in the …

Understanding Android applications' behavior is essential to many security applications, eg,
malware analysis. Although many systems have been proposed to perform such dynamic …