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The topic of mobile malware detection on the Android platform has attracted significant attention over the last several years. However, while much research has been conducted toward mobile malware detection techniques, little attention has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Vasileios Kouliaridis , Georgios Kambourakis , Tao Peng

The current state-of-the-art Android malware detection systems are based on machine learning and deep learning models. Despite having superior performance, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Therefore in this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hemant Rathore , Sanjay K. Sahay , Piyush Nikam , Mohit Sewak

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become a significant part of the Android ecosystem. Developers can employ various TPLs to facilitate their app development. Unfortunately, the popularity of TPLs also brings new security issues. For…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xian Zhan , Tianming Liu , Yepang Liu , Yang Liu , Li Li , Haoyu Wang , Xiapu Luo

Android is a widely used operating system that employs a permission-based access control model. The Android Permissions System (APS) is responsible for mediating application resource requests. APS is a critical component of the Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Amirhosein Sayyadabdi , Behrouz Tork Ladani , Bahman Zamani

As cyber threats and malware attacks increasingly alarm both individuals and businesses, the urgency for proactive malware countermeasures intensifies. This has driven a rising interest in automated machine learning solutions. Transformers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Meryam Chaieb , Mostafa Anouar Ghorab , Mohamed Aymen Saied

Android is undergoing unprecedented malicious threats daily, but the existing methods for malware detection often fail to cope with evolving camouflage in malware. To address this issue, we present HAWK, a new malware detection framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yiming Hei , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Lihong Wang , Xiaolin Xu , Jianwei Liu , Hong Liu , Jie Xu , Lichao Sun

This paper discusses the security posture of Android m-banking applications in Qatar. Since technology has developed over the years and more security methods are provided, banking is now heavily reliant on mobile applications for prompt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Shaymaa Abdulla Al-Delayel

Smartphones contain information that is more sensitive and personal than those found on computers and laptops. With an increase in the versatility of smartphone functionality, more data has become vulnerable and exposed to attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Vishwanath Venkatesh , Prasanna D. Kumaran , Joish J Bosco , Pravin R. Kumaar , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

We study the temporal dynamics of potentially harmful apps (PHAs) on Android by leveraging 8.8M daily on-device detections collected among 11.7M customers of a popular mobile security product between 2019 and 2020. We show that the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yun Shen , Pierre-Antoine Vervier , Gianluca Stringhini

Android is the most popular operating systems for smartphones and is also well-known for its flexibility and security. However, although it is overall considered very secure, there are still some vulnerabilities occasionally discovered that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Valerio Brussani

Mobile malware are malicious programs that target mobile devices. They are an increasing problem, as seen in the rise of detected mobile malware samples per year. The number of active smartphone users is expected to grow, stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 J. S. Panman de Wit , J. van der Ham , D. Bucur

With the Increasing use of Machine Learning in Android applications, more research and efforts are being put into developing better-performing machine learning algorithms with a vast amount of data. Along with machine learning for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Aryan Verma

With the rapid development of online technologies and the widespread usage of mobile phones among children, it is crucial to protect their online safety. Some studies reported that online abuse and incidents negatively affect children's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ricardo Lopes , Vinh Thong Ta , Ioannis Korkontzelos

Mobile malware has increased rapidly last 10 years. This rapid increase is due to the rapid enhancement of mobile technology and their power to do most work for their users. Since mobile devices are personal devices, then a special action…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Belal Amro

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers. As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps, malware writers regularly update their attack mechanisms to hide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyu Sun , Xiao Chen , Li Li , Haipeng Cai , John Grundy , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

Android's open-source nature facilitates widespread smartphone accessibility, particularly in price-sensitive markets. System and vendor applications that come pre-installed on budget Android devices frequently operate with elevated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alioune Diallo , Anta Diop , Abdoul Kader Kabore , Jordan Samhi , Aleksandr Pilgun , Tegawendé F. Bissyande , Jacque Klein

Android is the most popular operating system with billions of active devices. Unfortunately, its popularity and openness makes it attractive for unwanted apps, i.e., malware and potentially unwanted programs (PUP). In Android, app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Platon Kotzias , Juan Caballero , Leyla Bilge

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

Not long ago, it was thought that only software applications and general purpose digital systems i.e. computers were prone to various types of attacks against their security. The underlying hardware, hardware implementations of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

The misunderstanding and incorrect configurations of cryptographic primitives have exposed severe security vulnerabilities to attackers. Due to the pervasiveness and diversity of cryptographic misuses, a comprehensive and accurate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Cong Sun , Xinpeng Xu , Yafei Wu , Dongrui Zeng , Gang Tan , Siqi Ma , Peicheng Wang