Researchers seek fool-proof Android malware detection with AI

With its open architecture Android has always been seen by threat actors as boon for creating and distributing malware. One security vendor estimates as much 20 per cent of Android apps on the market have malware. Security vendors are already using a number of techniques to detect Android malware, including artificial neural networks but at the annual Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2017), being held this year in Halifax. The researchers say the technique could help vendor and enterprise analysts cut down the amount of time needed to recognize Android malware. The idea is to use algorithms to analyze the relationships between API calls in Android apps, because they can represent behaviours.