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The popularity of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets has increased significantly in the last few years with many millions of sold devices. This growth also has its drawbacks: attackers have realized that smartphones are an attractive target and in the last months many different kinds of malicious software (short: malware) for such devices have emerged. This worrisome development has the potential to hamper the prospering ecosystem of mobile devices and the potential for damage is huge.
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Hoffmann et al. (2013) studied this question.