Charging Me and I Know Your Secrets!

Weizhi Meng, Wang Hao Lee, Srinivasan Murali, Sivanand Krishnan · 2015

Smartphones such as Android phones and iPhones are widely adopted worldwide and the number of smartphone users has increased dramatically. With the popularity of smartphones, the privacy of smartphone users are challenged by various malware and attacks. A large amount of malware has been developed and spread such as Soundcomber, Screenmilker, TouchLogger, and so on. In addition, some smartphone attacks are based on physical access to the phone like smudge attacks. All these have reminded current users to pay more attention for smartphone security such as installing anti-malware software to defend against malicious apps, which may reduce the effectiveness of most malware.

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