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Malware : A Social Network Real Time Alerting System

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Malware is a serious issue that is constantly threatening our security and privacy. As discussed in class malware is malicious software and it comes in a variety of forms such as computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other programs. These programs can harm the user by stealing their information and infecting their devices and it does a effective job of multiplying and spreading. Since malware poses a threat to our security and privacy it is essential to provide defenses against mobile malware by increasing knowledge of the problem and how to better the mobile anti-virus programs but also how to increase awareness and warn other people and companies of potential malware and viruses heading their …show more content…

With the increasing popularity of smartphones and since Android has become a popular platform it has also become a popular platform for mobile malware. Our defense strategies against this mobile malware is weak and largely constrained by the “limited understanding of these emerging mobile malware and the lack of timely access to related samples” [2]. The dataset the collected is of Android malware from a span of a little over a year (2010-2011). While characterizing the mobile malware they observed that the families are adapting and adopting update attacks and drive-by downloads to infect users; giving them an advantage since they are more stealthy and difficult to detect. They illustrate that anti-malware solutions are lagging behind the malware by performing an evolution-based study of representative Android malware, revealing how fast it is evolving. Their analysis also shows that malware authors are quickly learning from each other creating hybrid threats. One of the most common techniques used to piggyback malicious payloads into popular applications is repackaging. Among the 1260 malware samples they collected and analyzed, 86% were repackaged [2]. One permission used includes the installation of additional applications without user intervention. Another attack is an update attack where instead of enclosing the payload as

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