COMPROMISED MOBILE DEVICE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

A system is provided for identifying compromised mobile devices from a network administrator's point of view. The provided system utilizes a graph-based inference approach that leverages an assumed correlation that devices sharing a similar set of installed applications will have a similar probability of being compromised. Stated differently, the provided system determines whether a given unknown device is compromised or not by analyzing its connections to known devices. Such connections are generated from a small set of known compromised mobile devices and the network traffic data of mobile devices collected by a service provider or network administrator. The proposed system is accordingly able to reliably detect unknown compromised devices without relying on device-specific features.