3 papers
cs.CR2026
Silent Consent, Persistent Risk: Android Permission Groups and Custom Permissions
Olawale Amos Akanji, Manuel Egele, Gianluca Stringhini
Android's permission system is designed to balance usability with informed consent, yet two legacy mechanisms still undermine that balance in Android 16: (i) permission groups that…
cs.CR2026
The Cost of Convenience: Identifying, Analyzing, and Mitigating Predatory Loan Applications on Android
Olawale Amos Akanji, Manuel Egele, Gianluca Stringhini
Digital lending applications, commonly referred to as loan apps, have become a primary channel for microcredit in emerging markets. However, many of these apps demand excessive per…
cs.CR2024
EmbedFuzz: High Speed Fuzzing Through Transplantation
Florian Hofhammer, Qinying Wang, Atri Bhattacharyya +5
Dynamic analysis and especially fuzzing are challenging tasks for embedded firmware running on modern low-end Microcontroller Units (MCUs) due to performance overheads from instruc…