Dasient's CTO Discusses "Behavioral" Study of 10,000 Android Applications and Implications of Mobile Drive-Bys

LAS VEGAS, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The mobile malware landscape has dramatically increased in size and scope these past few months with recent reports of DroidDream, Plankton, and GG Tracker, among others, impacting hundreds of thousands of Android users. As Android adoption continues to rise among consumers, malware authors too have turned to this lucrative market of mobile applications to spread malicious code and legitimate applications are also leaking sensitive user data.

On Thursday, August 4th, Dasient's CTO and Co-Founder, Neil Daswani, will present "Mobile Malware Madness, and How To Cap the Mad Hatters" at Black Hat 2011 in Las Vegas, NV.  This talk will reveal cutting-edge research the Dasient team has conducted on the Android application market. Specifically, Dasient sampled 10,000 mobile applications to examine malicious threats through behavioral analysis. This is the largest study of Android applications to-date to use behavioral analysis - in addition to normal static analysis. In behavioral analysis, the applications are actually run and executed in addition to looking for patterns in their code as with static analysis. During his talk, Neil will also describe a mobile drive-by attack that Dasient's research team prototyped, and its implications are to users.

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