We present previously unknown high severity vulnerabilities in Android. The first is in the
Android Platform and Google Play Services. The Platform instance affects Android 4.3-5.1, M …

Android root is the voluntary and legitimate process of gaining the highest privilege and full
control over a user's Android device. To facilitate the popular demand, a unique Android root …

The design of the Android system allows applications to load additional code from external
sources at runtime. On the one hand, malware can use this capability to add malicious …

Own your Android! Yet Another Universal Root Page 1 Own your Android! Yet Another
Universal Root Wen Xu1 Yubin Fu1 1Keen Team xuwen.sjtu@gmail.com qoobee1993@gmail.com …

By 2014, the number of Android users has grown to 1.1 billion and the number of Android
devices has reached 1.9 billion [1]. At the same time, enterprises are also embracing …

The Android OS not only dominates 78.6% of the worldwide smartphone market in 2014, but
importantly has been widely used for mission critical tasks (eg, medical devices, auto/aircraft …

The number of Android based smartphones is growing rapidly. They are increasingly used
for security critical private and business applications, such as online banking or to access …

Sophisticated malware targeting the Android mobile operating system increasingly utilizes
local root exploits. These allow for the escalation of privileges and subsequent automatic …

In the past few years, mobile devices (smartphones, PDAs) have seen both their
computational power and their data connectivity rise to a level nearly equivalent to that …

We present a previously undisclosed vulnerability of Android OS which can be exploited by
mounting a Denial-of-Service attack that makes devices become totally unresponsive. We …