Obfuscation is a way for Android developers to protect their apps from reverse engineering and tampering attempts by masking their source code and data. Without this level of protection ...

Code obfuscation is a set of program transformations that make program code and program execution difficult to analyze. First of all, obfuscation hinders manual inspection of program internals.

Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android ... process the code,” Eremin explained. Eremin said ThreatFabric has seen this malware obfuscation method ...

A new Android banking malware named 'SoumniBot' is using a less common obfuscation approach by exploiting ... the Android routine to parse and extract APK manifests. Manifest files ...