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 …

Recent years have seen a global adoption of smart mobile devices, particularly those based
on Android. However, Android's widespread adoption is marred with increasingly rampant …

Mobile Health (mHealth) applications are readily accessible to the average user of mobile
devices, and despite the potential of mHealth applications to improve the availability …

In parallel with the meteoric rise of mobile software, we are witnessing an alarming
escalation in the number and sophistication of the security threats targeted at mobile …

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 …

With millions of apps available to users, the mobile app market is rapidly becoming very
crowded. Given the intense competition, the time to market is a critical factor for the success …

Native code is now commonplace within Android app packages where it co-exists and
interacts with Dex bytecode through the Java Native Interface to deliver rich app …

Current static analysis techniques for Android applications operate at the Java level—that is,
they analyze either the Java source code or the Dalvik bytecode. However, Android allows …

Mobile applications are increasingly integrating third-party libraries to provide various
features, such as advertising, analytics, social networking, and more. Unfortunately, such …

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 …