Mobile Security (Android)

Mobile Smart Devices have become the centerpiece of society's computational needs. Securing all aspects of the mobile device ecosystem is the pillar for the research projects discussed in here.

Papers

A Large-scale Temporal Measurement of Android Malicious Apps: Persistence, Migration, and Lessons Learned

Yun Shen, Pierre-Antoine Vervier, Gianluca Stringhini
In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium
August 2022

APPJITSU: Investigating the Resiliency of Android Applications

Onur Zungur, Antonio Bianchi, Gianluca Stringhini, Manuel Egele
In Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
September 2021

LIBSPECTOR: Context-Aware Large-Scale Network Traffic Analysis of Android Applications

Onur Zungur, Gianluca Stringhini, Manuel Egele
In Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
June 2020

BORDERPATROL: Securing BYOD using fine-grained contextual information

Onur Zungur, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Gianluca Stringhini, Manuel Egele
In Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Portland, OR, June 2019

Proteus: Detecting Android Emulators from Instruction-Level Profiles

Onur Sahin, Ayse K Coskun, Manuel Egele
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID)
Heraklion, Greece, September 2018

Semi-Automated Discovery of Server-Based Information Oversharing Vulnerabilities in Android Applications

William Koch, Abdelberi Chaabane, Manuel Egele, William Robertson, Engin Kirda
In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Santa Barbara, CA, July 2017

On the Security and Engineering Implications of Finer-Grained Access Controls for Android Developers and Users

Yanick Fratantonio, Antonio Bianchi, William Robertson, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, Giovanni Vigna
In Proceedings of the Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Milano, Italy, July 2015

EdgeMiner: Automatically Detecting Implicit Control Flow Transitions through the Android Framework

Yinzhi Cao, Yanick Fratantonio, Antonio Bianchi, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Yan Chen
In Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, February 2015

An Empirical Study of Cryptographic Misuse in Android Applications

Manuel Egele, David Brumley, Yanick Fratantonio, Christopher Kruegel
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Berlin, Germany, November 2013