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by MichaelGagnon
5327 days ago
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These results are unsurprising to me. But then again, my startup is building a cloud-based mobile-malware detection service to address the inherent limitations of anti-virus on mobile devices. :-) Here's the problem: "Anti-virus" in general is limited because it relies on static signatures. Therefore it can only detect known malware and is vulnerable to evasion (polymorphism / metamorphism). On mobile devices AV is even more limited because of resource constraints (namely, limited battery and cpu). By doing malware detection in the cloud, we have plentiful resources to do heavyweight analyses. We also get a better overall detection capability by using behavioral analyses instead of just static signatures (we actually run the apps). If you're curious about the technical details, we presented at Black Hat in August. https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Daswani/BH_US_11_Daswani... P.S. We’re hiring :-) |
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