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Don't Trust the Super-App: A Case Study of Russia's Max
Richa Priyanka, Aaron Ortwein, Joel Reardon +3
Super-apps, an emerging mobile architecture, host third-party mini-apps inside a single app, allowing users to access diverse services. A decade of security research on the super-a…
Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android
Aniketh Girish, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador +2
Mobile apps frequently use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi scanning permissions to discover nearby devices like peripherals and connect to WiFi Access Points (APs). However, wi…
The Medium is the Message: How Secure Messaging Apps Leak Sensitive Data to Push Notification Services
Nikita Samarin, Alex Sanchez, Trinity Chung +5
Like most modern software, secure messaging apps rely on third-party components to implement important app functionality. Although this practice reduces engineering costs, it also…
An Empirical Study on User Reviews Targeting Mobile Apps' Security & Privacy
Debjyoti Mukherjee, Alireza Ahmadi, Maryam Vahdat Pour +1
Application markets provide a communication channel between app developers and their end-users in form of app reviews, which allow users to provide feedback about the apps. Althoug…
Proximity Tracing in an Ecosystem of Surveillance Capitalism
Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Joel Reardon
Proximity tracing apps have been proposed as an aide in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Some of those apps leverage attenuation of Bluetooth beacons from mobile devices to build…
Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients
Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais +1
Lightweight Bitcoin clients execute a Simple Payment Verification (SPV) protocol to verify the validity of transactions related to a particular user. Currently, lightweight clients…