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 …

The popularity of mobile applications is rapidly increasing in the age of smartphones and
tablets. Communication, social media, news, sending emails, buying, paying, viewing …

Mobile app development is hindered by device fragmentation and vendor-specific
modifications. Boundaries between devices blur with PC-tablet hybrids on the one side and …

Although mobile ad frauds have been widespread, state-of-the-art approaches in the
literature have mainly focused on detecting the so-called static placement frauds, where only …

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 …

It is commonly assumed that “free” mobile apps come at the cost of consumer privacy and
that paying for apps could offer consumers protection from behavioral advertising and long …

Third-party libraries are vital components of Android apps, yet they can also introduce
serious security threats and impede the accuracy and reliability of app analysis tasks, such …

The ubiquity of smartphones, and their very broad capabilities and usage, make the security
of these devices tremendously important. Unfortunately, despite all progress in security and …

It is commonly assumed that the availability of “free” mobile apps comes at the cost of
consumer privacy, and that paying for apps could offer consumers protection from …

The rapid growth and popularity of large language model (LLM) app stores have created
new opportunities and challenges for researchers, developers, users, and app store …