TY - GEN
T1 - Android applications and security breach
AU - Benitez-Mejia, Diana Gabriela Noemi
AU - Sanchez-Perez, Gabriel
AU - Toscano-Medina, Linda Karina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/8/2
Y1 - 2016/8/2
N2 - The evolution of the Technology and its use in the daily life and business has made that the people trust in mobile devices to perform important activities. Hackers have focus in them due to the information they can get. In recent years, the growth of malware towards mobile devices has been outstanding. In this paper we present mobile threats and some of the main attack vectors that hackers use to steal information. Taking into account that applications are neccesary in Android, we perform the analysis of a sample of the Remote Access Trojan called Dendroid, due to it is easy to found this kind of Trojans in Android applications. Also, as an example of how dangerous for the privacy of the users are the applications that request more permissions than those they need to run; ending with the encouragement to developers and researches to find alternatives to solve this security breach in Android.
AB - The evolution of the Technology and its use in the daily life and business has made that the people trust in mobile devices to perform important activities. Hackers have focus in them due to the information they can get. In recent years, the growth of malware towards mobile devices has been outstanding. In this paper we present mobile threats and some of the main attack vectors that hackers use to steal information. Taking into account that applications are neccesary in Android, we perform the analysis of a sample of the Remote Access Trojan called Dendroid, due to it is easy to found this kind of Trojans in Android applications. Also, as an example of how dangerous for the privacy of the users are the applications that request more permissions than those they need to run; ending with the encouragement to developers and researches to find alternatives to solve this security breach in Android.
KW - Android
KW - Dendroid
KW - Remote Access Trojan
KW - attack vector
KW - command and control server
KW - malware
KW - smartphones
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992052895&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/DIPDMWC.2016.7529383
DO - 10.1109/DIPDMWC.2016.7529383
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84992052895
T3 - 2016 3rd International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications, DIPDMWC 2016
SP - 164
EP - 169
BT - 2016 3rd International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications, DIPDMWC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications, DIPDMWC 2016
Y2 - 6 July 2016 through 8 July 2016
ER -