Less is More: A privacy-respecting Android malware classifier using federated learning

In this paper we present LiM (‘Less is More’), a malware classification framework that leverages Federated Learning to detect and classify malicious apps in a privacy-respecting manner. Information about newly installed apps is kept locally on users’ devices, so that the provider cannot infer which...

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Main Authors: Gálvez Rafa, Moonsamy Veelasha, Diaz Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-10-01
Series:Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2021-0062