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Google Play Store Removes 813 Apps Its Qualified A Creepware, Research Claims

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How CreepRank algorithm find?
CreepRank Identify Million Install
Results of CreepRank algorithm findings

Google Play Store Removes 813 Apps Its Qualified A Creepware, Research Claims

 

 

Now The Google are removed a batch of 813 apps from Google Play app store that were identified as ‘creepware’ by a group of researchers who study stalkerware-like apps. These creepware were identified by the researchers via a newly developed algorithm called, CreepRank its detects creepware-like behaviour within mobile apps. These algorithm then gives ‘creep score’ to apps that are analysed and the researchers found over 1,000 apps that qualified as creepware. These researchers describe creepware as apps that can be essentially be used for interpersonal attacks. The Creepware apps are not necessarily spyware or stalkerware but they can be used used to stalk or threaten another person, directly or indirectly.

 

These findings and published in an academic paper from the New York University, Cornell Tech, & NortonLifeLock Research Group and were first reported by ZDNet. The research paper notes that the research aims to initiate a larger study of creepware an area that the authors believe remains “unstudied.” They can be beneficial to improve security on platforms such as Google Play store. This paper are initiate a study of creepware using access to a dataset detailing the mobile apps installed on over 50 million Android devices. We develop a new algorithm, CreepRank, that uses the principle of guilt by association to help surface previously unknown examples of creepware, which we then characterise through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods,” the paper highlighted.

 

 

How CreepRank algorithm find?

 

The researchers in the paper are claimed that to run the CreepRank algorithm to study & find creepware, apps installed on roughly 50 million Android devices to the analysed. The data (in the form of anonymous data) its was provided to the researchers by Norton, a major computer security firm. This was further stated that “a wide variety of potential creepware apps” its discovered by the algorithm and then 1,000 apps in with the highest CreepRank score were manually analysed and coded to understand their nature.

 

Its findings from our manual coding analysis showed that 857 of CreepRank’s top 1,000 apps qualify as creepware, fulfilling a clear purpose pertaining to interpersonal attack or defence. Unsurprisingly, given the seed set, surveillance apps were best represented in the rankings — 372 of the top 1,000 apps many of which were not identified by prior work, to the research paper noted.These researchers are also claimed that 107 multifaceted surveillance apps affected 172 thousand (over 17 crores) The Norton customers in 2017 alone. in the nature or sub-category of the remaining creepware apps was also projected in a chart.

 

CreepRank Identify Million Install

 

The CreepRank identified more than a million installs of diverse creepware apps, its including apps its enable spoofing (114 apps), harassment (80, including SMS bombers), & hacking tutorials (63), and many more.These paper suggested that there are apps that have the ability to defend against interpersonal attacks, such as anti-surveillance apps & apps to the deal with ‘SMS bombing’. But in these are yet to be studied & analysed using CreepRank.

 

 

Results of CreepRank algorithm findings

 

These researchers claimed that the team notified Google about the 1,095 apps that qualified as creepware.Its also reported 1,095 apps to Google via a responsible disclosure process, and they removed 813 apps for violating the Google Play store’s terms and conditions.These researchers also claimed in the team explored the landscape of creepware that they believe remain largely unstudied. They was also noted that algorithms such as CreepRank can be useful for app stores and anti-virus vendors to improve safety for mobile device users.

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