Securing Android app markets via modeling and predicting malware spread between markets

• Main Authors: Meng, Guozhu, Patrick, Matthew, Xue, Yinxing, Liu, Yang, Zhang, Jie
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Malware Spread Prediction; Epidemic Model
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150817
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Android ecosystem has recently dominated mobile devices. Android app markets, including official Google Play and other third party markets, are becoming hotbeds, where malware originates and spreads. Android malware has been observed to both propagate within markets and spread between markets. I...