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 …

Repackaging is a serious threat to the Android ecosystem as it deprives app developers of
their benefits, contributes to spreading malware on users' devices, and increases the …

Android applications are frequently plagiarized or repackaged, and software obfuscation is a
recommended protection against these practices. However, there is very little data on the …

In this paper, we present the first large-scale and systematic study to characterize the code
reuse practice in the Ethereum smart contract ecosystem. We first performed a detailed …

Android platform security is an active area of research where malware detection techniques
continuously evolve to identify novel malware and improve the timely and accurate detection …

To ensure the quality and trustworthiness of the apps within its app market (ie, Google Play),
Google has released a series of policies to regulate app developers. As a result, policy …

Obfuscation techniques modify an app's source (or machine) code in order to make it more
difficult to analyze. This is typically applied to protect intellectual property in benign apps, or …

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 …

Android apps pervasively use third-party libraries (TPL) to reuse functionalities and improve
development efficiency. The insufficient knowledge of the TPL internal exposes the …

Increasingly mobile device users are being hurt by security or privacy issues with the apps
they use. App developers can help prevent this; inexpensive security assurance techniques …