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With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component. Mobile devices are very attractive attack surface for cyber thieves as they hold personal details (accounts, locations, contacts, photos) and have potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shweta Bhandari , Wafa Ben Jaballah , Vineeta Jain , Vijay Laxmi , Akka Zemmari , Manoj Singh Gaur , Mohamed Mosbah , Mauro Conti

Android apps must work correctly even if their execution is interrupted by external events. For instance, an app must work properly even if a phone call is received, or after its layout is redrawn because the smartphone has been rotated.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Oliviero Riganelli , Simone Paolo Mottadelli , Claudio Rota , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Android apps must be able to deal with both stop events, which require immediately stopping the execution of the app without losing state information, and start events, which require resuming the execution of the app at the same point it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Oliviero Riganelli , Marco Mobilio , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

As mobile application (app) functionalities grow increasingly complex and their iterations accelerate, ensuring high reliability presents significant challenges. While functionality-oriented GUI testing has attracted growing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jinlong He , Changwei Xia , Binru Huang , Jiwei Yan , Jun Yan , Jian Zhang

Is Android malware classification a solved problem? Published F1 scores of up to 0.99 appear to leave very little room for improvement. In this paper, we argue that results are commonly inflated due to two pervasive sources of experimental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Feargus Pendlebury , Fabio Pierazzi , Roberto Jordaney , Johannes Kinder , Lorenzo Cavallaro

With the development in the field of smartphones and ever growing base of Internet, various softwares are left prone to many malicious activities like pharming, phishing, ransomware, spam, spoofing, spyware, eavesdropping, etc. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Soumya Sourav , Devashish Khulbe , Naman Kapoor

Android-based smart devices are exponentially growing, and due to the ubiquity of the Internet, these devices are globally connected to the different devices/networks. Its popularity, attractive features, and mobility make malware creator…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Sanjay K. Sahay , Ashu Sharma

Mobile apps increasingly rely on real-time sensor and system data to adapt their behavior to user context. While emulators and instrumented builds offer partial solutions, they often fail to support reproducible testing of context-sensitive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ibrahim Khalilov , Chaoran Chen , Ziang Xiao , Tianshi Li , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Yaxing Yao

While there have been various studies towards Android apps and their development, there is limited discussion of the broader class of apps that fall in the fake area. Fake apps and their development are distinct from official apps and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chongbin Tang , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Lihua Xu , Yang Liu , Zhushou Tang , Liang Dou

We introduce FRONTMATTER: a tool to automatically mine both user interface models and behavior of Android apps at a large scale with high precision. Given an app, FRONTMATTER statically extracts all declared screens, the user interface…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Konstantin Kuznetsov , Chen Fu , Song Gao , David N. Jansen , Lijun Zhang , Andreas Zeller

LLM-generated peer reviews are increasingly common at major venues, yet their deficiencies are hard to detect because they are uniformly fluent and well-structured. Existing work either classifies authorship without judging quality, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hanqi Duan , Xiang Li

Mobile applications rely on complex backends that introduce significant security risks, yet developers often lack the tools to assess these risks effectively. This paper presents AndroScanner, an automated pipeline for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Harini Dandu

Over the last decade, researchers have extensively explored the vulnerabilities of Android malware detectors to adversarial examples through the development of evasion attacks; however, the practicality of these attacks in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Hamid Bostani , Veelasha Moonsamy

Researchers have proposed kinds of malware detection methods to solve the explosive mobile security threats. We argue that the experiment results are inflated due to the research bias introduced by the variability of malware dataset. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yan Lin , Tianming Liu , Wei Liu , Zhigaoyuan Wang , Li Li , Guoai Xu , Haoyu Wang

Apps on mobile phones manipulate all sorts of data, including sensitive data, leading to privacy-related concerns. Recent regulations like the European GDPR provide rules for the processing of personal and sensitive data, like that no such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Jordan Samhi , Maria Kober , Abdoul Kader Kabore , Steven Arzt , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

The competing nature of the app market motivates us to shift our focus on apps that provide similar functionalities and directly compete with each other (i.e., peer apps). In this work, we study the ratings and the review text of 100…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Safwat Hassan , Heng Li , Ahmed E. Hassan

The proliferation of deepfake imagery poses escalating challenges for practitioners tasked with verifying digital media authenticity. While detection algorithm research is abundant, empirical evaluations of publicly accessible tools that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Michael Rettinger , Ben Beaumont , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le

Progress in a research field can be hard to assess, in particular when many concurrent methods are proposed in a short period of time. This is the case in digital pathology, where many foundation models have been released recently to serve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Pierre Marza , Leo Fillioux , Sofiène Boutaj , Kunal Mahatha , Christian Desrosiers , Pablo Piantanida , Jose Dolz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou

Many Android applications collect data from users. When they do, they must protect this collected data according to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important since the European Union rolled out the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mugdha Khedkar

Smartphones are becoming necessary tools in the daily lives of mil-lions of users who rely on these devices and their applications. There are thou-sands of applications for smartphone devices such as the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sonia Meskini , Ali Bou Nassif , Luiz Fernando Capretz