Android applications are develo** rapidly across the mobile ecosystem, but Android
malware is also emerging in an endless stream. Many researchers have studied the …

With the integration of mobile devices into daily life, smartphones are privy to increasing
amounts of sensitive information. Sophisticated mobile malware, particularly Android …

Ransomware is a growing threat that encrypts auser's files and holds the decryption key until
a ransom ispaid by the victim. This type of malware is responsible fortens of millions of …

Malicious applications pose a threat to the security of the Android platform. The growing
amount and diversity of these applications render conventional defenses largely ineffective …

As Android has become increasingly popular, so has malware targeting it, thus motivating
the research community to propose different detection techniques. However, the constant …

App Store Analysis studies information about applications obtained from app stores. App
stores provide a wealth of information derived from users that would not exist had the …

The rise in popularity of the Android platform has resulted in an explosion of malware threats
targeting it. As both Android malware and the operating system itself constantly evolve, it is …

A pervasive increase in the adoption rate of smartphones with Android OS is noted in recent
years. Android's popular and attractive environment not only captured the attention of users …

As embedded systems are more than ever present in our society, their security is becoming
an increasingly important issue. However, based on the results of many recent analyses of …

We present Apposcopy, a new semantics-based approach for identifying a prevalent class of
Android malware that steals private user information. Apposcopy incorporates (i) a high …