Malware detection at scale in the Android realm is often carried out using machine learning
techniques. State-of-the-art approaches such as DREBIN and MaMaDroid are reported to …

Application sandboxing is a well-established security principle employed in the Android
platform to safeguard sensitive information. However, hardware resources, specifically the …

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers.
As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps …

Inter-app communication mechanism allows app developers to improve Android apps'
usability and provide users with rich functions via interacting with exposed components or …

While extremely valuable to achieve advanced functions, mobile phone sensors can be
abused by attackers to implement malicious activities in Android apps, as experimentally …

Exported Activity (EA), a kind of activities in Android apps that can be launched by external
components, is one of the most important inter-component communication (ICC) …

Mobile apps are widely used and often process users' sensitive data. Many taint analysis
tools have been applied to analyze sensitive information flows and report data leaks in apps …

Activity hijacking is one of the most powerful attacks in Android. Though promising, all the
prior activity hijacking attacks suffer from some limitations and have limited attack …

Today's Android developers tend to include numerous features to accommodate diverse
user requirements, which inevitably leads to bloated apps. Yet more often than not, only a …

Android is an operating system widely deployed especially on devices such as
smartphones. In this paper, we study the evolution of OpenJDK Java Class Library (JCL) …