Implementation of SlowDroid: Slow DoS Attack Performed by a Smartphone
Enrico Cambiaso · International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems · 2015
In terms of capabilities, today's smartphones are comparable to desktop computers.Last generation cellphones are indeed able to execute almost all the operation a common computer is able to accomplish.In this paper we focus on the use of mobile devices for perpetrating cyber attacks.With the purpose of proving the ability of executing attacks from a mobile environment, we introduce a mobile threat, SlowDroid, running on Android devices.SlowDroid implements a Denial of Service attack.Since it makes use of tiny amounts of resources, it is particularly accustomed to a mobile environment.We exhaustively present SlowDroid implementation and choices in terms of design, user interface and system architecture.