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The persistent threat of Android malware presents a serious challenge to the security of millions of users globally. While many machine learning-based methods have been developed to detect these threats, their reliance on large labeled…

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Malware are malicious programs that are grouped into families based on their penetration technique, source code, and other characteristics. Classifying malware programs into their respective families is essential for building effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Filippo Leveni , Matteo Mistura , Francesco Iubatti , Carmine Giangregorio , Nicolò Pastore , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Since Android has become a popular software platform for mobile devices recently; they offer almost the same functionality as personal computers. Malwares have also become a big concern. As the number of new Android applications tends to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Muhammad Zuhair Qadir , Atif Nisar Jilani , Hassam Ullah Sheikh

Android malware attacks are increasing daily at a tremendous volume, making Android users more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Researchers have developed many machine learning (ML)/ deep learning (DL) techniques to detect and mitigate android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Ayushi Chaudhuri , Arijit Nandi , Buddhadeb Pradhan

As Android malware is growing and evolving, deep learning has been introduced into malware detection, resulting in great effectiveness. Recent work is considering hybrid models and multi-view learning. However, they use only simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yafei Wu , Jian Shi , Peicheng Wang , Dongrui Zeng , Cong Sun

Smartphones have become an intrinsic part of human's life. The smartphone unifies diverse advanced characteristics. It enables users to store various data such as photos, health data, credential bank data, and personal information. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng Li

Android has become the most popular mobile operating system. Correspondingly, an increasing number of Android malware has been developed and spread to steal users' private information. There exists one type of malware whose benign behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yueming Wu , Deqing Zou , Wei Yang , Xiang Li , Hai Jin

Smartphones and mobile devices are rapidly becoming indispensable devices for many users. Unfortunately, they also become fertile grounds for hackers to deploy malware and to spread virus. There is an urgent need to have a "security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Min Zheng , Mingshen Sun , John C. S. Lui

Each day, anti-virus companies receive tens of thousands samples of potentially harmful executables. Many of the malicious samples are variations of previously encountered malware, created by their authors to evade pattern-based detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-27 Joris Kinable , Orestis Kostakis

Although deep learning (DL) shows powerful potential in cell segmentation tasks, it suffers from poor generalization as DL-based methods originally simplified cell segmentation in detecting cell membrane boundary, lacking prominent cellular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Fang Hu , Xuexue Sun , Ke Qing , Fenxi Xiao , Zhi Wang , Xiaolu Fan

The importance of employing machine learning for malware detection has become explicit to the security community. Several anti-malware vendors have claimed and advertised the application of machine learning in their products in which the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Mansour Ahmadi , Angelo Sotgiu , Giorgio Giacinto

Traditional supervised medical image segmentation models require large amounts of labeled data for training; however, obtaining such large-scale labeled datasets in the real world is extremely challenging. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad

Web access today occurs predominantly through mobile devices, with Android representing a significant share of the mobile device market. This widespread usage makes Android a prime target for malicious attacks. Despite efforts to combat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nishavi Ranaweera , Jiarui Xu , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne

Machine learning (ML) in real-world systems must contend with concept drift, adversarial actors, and a spectrum of potential features with varying costs and benefits. Malware naturally exhibits all of these complexities, but for the same…

The rapid evolution of Android malware poses significant challenges to the maintenance and security of mobile applications (apps). Traditional detection techniques often struggle to keep pace with emerging malware variants that employ…

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Android-based devices like smartphones have become ideal mobile cyber-physical systems (MCPS) due to their powerful processors and variety of sensors. In recent years, an explosively and continuously growing number of malicious applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Dan Su , Jiqiang Liu , Wei Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

With the number of new mobile malware instances increasing by over 50\% annually since 2012 [24], malware embedding in mobile apps is arguably one of the most serious security issues mobile platforms are exposed to. While obfuscation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Muhammad Ikram , Pierrick Beaume , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is the branch of machine learning that aims to improve learning performance by leveraging unlabeled data when labels are insufficient. Recently, SSL with deep models has proven to be successful on standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Lan-Zhe Guo , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li

Android malware detection based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models is widely used for mobile device security. Such models offer benefits in terms of detection accuracy and efficiency, but it is often difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maithili Kulkarni , Mark Stamp

With the popularity of Android growing exponentially, the amount of malware has significantly exploded. It is arguably one of the most viral problems on mobile platforms. Recently, various approaches have been introduced to detect Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peng Xu