Android botnets on the rise: Trends and characteristics

2012 Information Security for South Africa - Proceedings of the ISSA 2012 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pieterse, Heloise ^a   Olivier, Martin S ^b  

^a Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Android; application; botnet; characteristics; malware; trends

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; BOTNET; CHARACTERISTICS; MALWARES; TRENDS;

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER CRIME; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84869222883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSA.2012.6320432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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