AI Engine Triggers Account Takeover via API Version Confusion
Methodical analysis beats blind fuzzing as Ostorlab's AI engine discovers cross-version password reset weakness and achieves account takeover without email access.
Mon 15 December 2025
Uncovering a Second-Order Data Exfiltration Chain in Modern SPAs
How a second-order client-side data exfiltration chain was discovered in a modern SPA, transformi...
Wed 10 December 2025
Ostorlab AI Pentest Engine / How it Works?
Technical deep dive into Ostorlab AI Pentest Engine inner working, from threat intelligence, risk...
Mon 27 October 2025
Going Beyond: Ostorlab AI Engine Discovers Unknown Vulnerability Classes
Ostorlab’s reasoning-driven AI engine breaks past rule-based limits to surface previously unknown...
Mon 13 October 2025
Mobile Benchmarking, Monkey Tester Reliability, and Deeper Web Crawling
This release introduces newly developed insecure mobile apps, improves the Monkey Tester for reliable prompt-based input during dynamic scans, and enhances the web crawler to explore deeper routes with faster performance. These improvements boost scanning coverage, accuracy, and reliability
Introducing Ostorlab Security Testing Benchmarks: Real Vulnerabilities, Real Impact
The first open-source benchmark suite featuring 93 realistic vulnerable mobile apps that mirror actual CVE and bug bounty findings - not theoretical textbook examples.
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Banking Report 2025: Security at the Core of Mobile Finance
Large-scale security analysis of 500+ top mobile banking apps reveals widespread vulnerabilities, decade-old codebases, and concerning backend centralization patterns.
Mon 15 September 2025
Automating Security Research: AI Engine Exploits Complex Blind Code Injection
Precision beats payload spray using Ostorlab's AI engine to systematically land RCE on Titiler and proves exfiltration without a single stack trace.
Thu 04 September 2025
AI-Powered Pentesting: A Deep Dive into Android Intent Redirection
This article showcases Ostorlab's AI Pentest Engine's process for analyzing an Android application for Intent Redirection vulnerabilities. Follow the engine's journey from static analysis and initial findings to rigorous dynamic validation, demonstrating its ability to not only identify potential threats but also to meticulously discard false positives.
Sun 31 August 2025
Automating Security Research: AI Engine Exploits GCP Service Account Secret
This article presents a thorough, hands-on analysis and real-world exploitation of a hardcoded GCP service account with overprivileged Pub/Sub access discovered in a HackerOne mobile app. It details how Ostorlab’s AI-powered pentesting engine automated the full cycle—from authentication and permission enumeration to end-to-end message injection/interception—enabling remediation within four days.
Thu 28 August 2025
From Signal to the Android SDK: Chaining Path Traversal, Mimetype Confusion, Security Check Bypass and File Descriptor Bruteforce for Arbitrary File Access
This technical analysis reveals how sophisticated attack chains—combining path traversal, symbolic link manipulation, and Android SDK quirks—can breach Signal Android's defenses to extract sensitive internal files, despite its legendary encryption remaining intact. While Signal patched these vulnerabilities within days, the discoveries offer crucial lessons about how seemingly minor bugs can be chained into powerful exploits, and why even the best security architecture needs multiple layers of defense
Mon 11 August 2025
Automating Security Research: AI Engine Exploits Report Portal XXE (CVE-2021-29620)
This article presents a thorough, hands-on analysis and proof of concept for exploiting an OOB XXE vulnerability CVE-2021-29620 in Report Portal. It details how Ostorlab's AI-powered pentesting engine was used to automate the full cycle.
Thu 07 August 2025
From Random to Intelligent: How AI-Powered Monkey Testing Achieves 10x Mobile App Coverage
Ostorlab’s AI Monkey Tester transforms mobile app security testing by using natural language prompts and generative AI to automatically generate intelligent, context-aware test scenarios, resulting in up to a 10x increase in application coverage compared to traditional, rule-based testing approaches.
Fri 01 August 2025
Automating Security Research: AI Engine Exploits Zulip Stored XSS (CVE-2025-52559)
This article presents a thorough, hands-on analysis and proof of concept for exploiting the stored XSS vulnerability CVE-2025-52559 in Zulip. It details how Ostorlab's AI-powered pentesting engine was used to automate the full cycle.
Mon 28 July 2025
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