Log:{It's} Big,{It's} Heavy,{It's} Filled with Personal Data! Measuring the Logging of Sensitive Information in the Android Ecosystem

A Lyons, J Gamba, A Shawaga, J Reardon… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Android offers a shared system that multiplexes all logged data from all system components,
including both the operating system and the console output of apps that run on it. A security …

Mixed signals: Analyzing software attribution challenges in the android ecosystem

K Hageman, Á Feal, J Gamba, A Girish… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to identify the author responsible for a given software object is critical for many
research studies and for enhancing software transparency and accountability. However, as …

Not your average app: A large-scale privacy analysis of android browsers

A Pradeep, A Feal, J Gamba, A Rao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The transparency and privacy behavior of mobile browsers has remained widely unexplored
by the research community. In fact, as opposed to regular Android apps, mobile browsers …

Iafdroid: Demystifying collusion attacks in android ecosystem via precise inter-app analysis

B Wang, C Yang, J Ma - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inter-app communication mechanism allows app developers to improve Android apps'
usability and provide users with rich functions via interacting with exposed components or …

Challenges Associated with the Deployment of Software Over-the-Air (SOTA) Updates in the Automotive Industry

R Ekatpure - International Journal of Sustainable Infrastructure for …, 2023 - vectoral.org
The rise of connected and autonomous vehicles has made Software Over-the-Air (SOTA)
updates essential for enhancing vehicle performance, security, and functionality, enabling …

BaseMirror: Automatic Reverse Engineering of Baseband Commands from Android's Radio Interface Layer

W Li, H Wen, Z Lin - Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In modern mobile devices, baseband is an integral component running on top of cellular
processors to handle crucial radio communications. However, recent research reveals …

Gig Work at What Cost? Exploring Privacy Risks of Gig Work Platform Participation in the US

A Pradeep, J Gunawan, Á Feal… - Proceedings on …, 2025 - petsymposium.org
In recent years," gig work" platforms have gained popularity as a way for individuals to earn
money; as of 2021, 16% of Americans have at some point earned money from such …

[HTML][HTML] Kunai: A static analysis framework for Android apps

E Blázquez, J Tapiador - SoftwareX, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper describes Kunai, a C++ library that offers static analysis functionalities for
Android apps. Kunai's main goal is to provide analysts and researchers with a framework to …

ModZoo: A Large-Scale Study of Modded Android Apps and their Markets

LA Saavedra, HS Dutta, AR Beresford… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present the results of the first large-scale study into Android markets that offer modified
or modded apps: apps whose features and functionality have been altered by a third-party …

One size does not fit all: Quantifying the risk of malicious app encounters for different android user profiles

S Dambra, L Bilge, P Kotzias, Y Shen… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Previous work has investigated the particularities of security practices within specific user
communities defined based on country of origin, age, prior tech abuse, and economic status …