Wisdom of app stores: Early identification of malicious Android apps from Google Play
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 12:41
in Mathematics & Economics
Apps on mobile phones can be dangerous data thieves. To expose those spies in your pocket, computer scientists from Saarland University present a new method to analyze apps en masse. To do this, they compare the actual behavior of the respective app with its published functional description. The researchers from Saarbruecken applied their approach to over 22,000 apps on the Google Play platform, detecting several malware instances. The American search engine corporation has already shown interest.