Technical deep dive into Ostorlab AI Pentest Engine inner working, from threat intelligence, risk identification, mobile support to vulnerability validation.

Security

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

Product

Mobile Benchmarking, Monkey Tester Reliability, and Deeper Web Crawling

This release introduces newly developed insecure mobile apps, improves the Monkey Tester for reli...

Tue 23 September 2025

Security

Introducing Ostorlab Security Testing Benchmarks: Real Vulnerabilities, Real Impact

The first open-source benchmark suite featuring 93 realistic vulnerable mobile apps that mirror a...

Mon 22 September 2025

Large-scale security analysis of 500+ top mobile banking apps reveals widespread vulnerabilities, decade-old codebases, and concerning backend centralization patterns.

Precision beats payload spray using Ostorlab's AI engine to systematically land RCE on Titiler and proves exfiltration without a single stack trace.

Latest posts

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

SSL Scanner Overhaul and Improved UI Call Coverage Powered by User-Defined Prompts

This release introduces major enhancements to our AI-powered UI exploration engine, delivering smarter and more adaptive dynamic scanning across modern applications. We've overhauled our SSL scanner to detect 15+ critical SSL/TLS vulnerabilities with improved precision, and rebuilt the taint analysis engine for deeper and more reliable vulnerability detection. The release also expands coverage for secrets detection, mobile misconfigurations, and modern CVEs. Across the board, platform performance has been refined for greater speed, stability, and accuracy.

Tue 22 July 2025

Know Your App's Data Habits: A Deep Dive into Our Comprehensive Privacy Analysis

Ostorlab's Privacy Scan automatically detects mismatches between what your app's privacy policy says and what it actually does. This comprehensive analysis of policy text, permissions, code, and UI elements helps mobile developers avoid compliance violations and build user trust through accurate privacy practices.

Tue 27 May 2025


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