Tag: collusion
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New paper: Distinguishing between malicious app collusion and benign app collaboration: a machine-learning approach
Yesterday, we published a paper (that was presented at VB2016) on Android app collusions : the situation in which two or more apps work together to exfiltrate data from a device using the combined permissions of each app. Today, we publish a follow-up paper by the same (in fact, slightly larger) group of researchers, affiliated…
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New paper: Distinguishing between malicious app collusion and benign app collaboration: a machine-learning approach
Yesterday, we published a paper (that was presented at VB2016) on Android app collusions : the situation in which two or more apps work together to exfiltrate data from a device using the combined permissions of each app. Today, we publish a follow-up paper by the same (in fact, slightly larger) group of researchers, affiliated…
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VB2016 paper: Wild Android collusions
Playing out in the sidelines of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the discovery that Facebook had been collecting metadata on the calls and SMS conversations of many of the users of its Android app. Whatever your view on this practice, the fact that it is carried out by a single app does at least make…
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VB2016 paper: Wild Android collusions
Playing out in the sidelines of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the discovery that Facebook had been collecting metadata on the calls and SMS conversations of many of the users of its Android app. Whatever your view on this practice, the fact that it is carried out by a single app does at least make…
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VB2016 preview: Wild Android Collusions
Most research into and protection against malicious apps focuses on single apps. This makes it interesting for malware authors to use app ‘collusion’: the ability of two (or more) apps to perform an attack in collaboration. Such attacks have previously been demonstrated as proof-of-concepts but had not yet been found in the wild until earlier…
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VB2016 preview: Wild Android Collusions
Most research into and protection against malicious apps focuses on single apps. This makes it interesting for malware authors to use app ‘collusion’: the ability of two (or more) apps to perform an attack in collaboration. Such attacks have previously been demonstrated as proof-of-concepts but had not yet been found in the wild until earlier…