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Securing mobile devices: malware
mitigation methods Lomonosov
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation nastya_jane@seclab.cs.msu.su,
gamajun@seclab.cs.msu.su Abstract Malware on mobile handsets has always been a point
of concern for its users. With the widespread adoption of smartphones and
tablets and the emergence of centralized application markets it started to
represent a significant threat. This situation has led to the development of defence methods for securing mobile devices coming from
operating system developers, antivirus vendors and security researchers. In
this paper we focus on the solutions proposed by security researchers which
include both methods inherited from malware detection on personal computers
and new methods specific to mobile device environment. This paper gives an
overview of the history and development of mobile malware and provides a
survey of the methods proposed for malware mitigation on mobile devices in
the last years. Keywords: mobile devices, malware, malware
mitigation +: Corresponding author: Anastasia Skovoroda Journal
of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable
Applications (JoWUA), |