A survey on anti-phishing techniques in mobile phones

There is an exponential growth in use of smartphones and mobile internet. This is accelerated by the availability of smartphone and data plans at a very low cost. Smart phones are used from socializing to banking activities. Smartphones are not used only by the tech savvy generation; all age groups today use smartphones. Hence the numbers of possible victims' increases day by day and thus mobile devices have become appealing and easy targets to the attackers. Therefore implementation of security measures in these devices is essential. Security measures available for smart phone are not yet mature to detect zero day phishing attack. We focus on phishing attacks in smartphones and surveyed the currently available tools for mobile devices.

I. Introduction

Android is a extensively anticipated open source operating system for mobile devices that provides a base operating system, an application middleware layer, a Java software development kit (SDK), and a collection of system applications[8]. It is based on the Linux kernel. Application and data are protected by Android using two enforcement mechanisms, one at the system level and the other at the inter-component communication level. In spite of security measures taken in designing of android operating system according to the Symantec Intelligence Report in January 2015 browsers are still vulnerable to phishing attack [1].