App Market Administrators — Administrators of app
markets should strictly vet every uploaded app,
and remove suspicious apps. Recently, serverside
vetting processes have been developed to
detect and then remove malicious apps from app
markets with varying levels of success [10].
Moreover, it is helpful to developers if administrators
have a well defined security policy. For
example, apps have to conform to Apple’s security
rules before they can be distributed via the
App Store. Apple approves apps by code signing
with encryption keys. Downloading the apps
from the App store is the only way for iPhones
to install apps. This ensures that only those apps
satisfying Apple’s security policy can be distributed
to iPhones. Google has introduced a
new mobile malware detector Bouncer to scan
apps before they are released in the Google Play
Store. Bouncer checks if an app attempts to send
SMS messages to malicious sites [11].