AndRadar: Fast discovery of Android applications in alternative markets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8550 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-71

  Lindorfer, Martina ^a   Volanis, Stamatis ^b   Sisto, Alessandro ^c   Neugschwandtner, Matthias ^a   Athanasopoulos, Elias ^b   Maggi, Federico ^c   Platzer, Christian ^a   Zanero, Stefano ^c   Ioannidis, Sotiris ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Android; App Markets; Malware Tracking; Measurements

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER CRIME; MALWARE; MEASUREMENTS;

ANDROID; ANDROID APPLICATIONS; ANDROID MALWARE; DESKTOP SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES; MALICIOUS ANDROID APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84904132408     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08509-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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