Abstract:The exponential growth of android contrivances has attracted cybercriminals strongly and dramatically. The applications existed in the android market represented an attack surface owing to the lack of security mechanisms applied by the Google play store. Additionally, downloading apps from unofficial sources lead to a further security threat. Any mobile application requests several permissions to access users’ data to run the app. Thus, attackers exploited this feature in compromising users’ sensitive data. Th… Show more
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