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 …

The increasing abundance of large high-quality datasets, combined with significant
technical advances over the last several decades have made machine learning into a major …

Online programming discussion platforms such as Stack Overflow serve as a rich source of
information for software developers. Available information include vibrant discussions and …

Third-party libraries on Android have been shown to be security and privacy hazards by
adding security vulnerabilities to their host apps or by misusing inherited access rights …

The drastic increase of Android malware has led to a strong interest in developing methods
to automate the malware analysis process. Existing automated Android malware detection …

Mobile devices and their application marketplaces drive the entire economy of the today's
mobile landscape. Android platforms alone have produced staggering revenues, exceeding …

The number of malicious applications targeting the Android system has literally exploded in
recent years. While the security community, well aware of this fact, has proposed several …

Besides traditional problems such as potential bugs,(smartphone) application clones on
Android markets bring new threats. That is, attackers clone the code from legitimate Android …

Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the
users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly …