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 an...
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 applicatio...
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 GC...
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Ostorlab Security Scanner GitHub Integration
The Ostorlab Security Scanner GitHub Integration enhances mobile app development workflows by embedding automated security directly into the CI/CD pipeline. It offers a GitHub Action for scanning mobile application on every code push. It adds inline vulnerability insights directly to pull requests, highlighting the exact code changes that introduced issues and suggesting one-click fixes developers can apply without leaving GitHub.
Wed 21 May 2025
Scan, Sync, Remediate: Ostorlab Meets Vanta for Faster Audits
This article announces the new integration between Ostorlab and Vanta, explains how it works, outlines the setup process, and highlights the key benefits for security and compliance teams.
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Expanded Privacy Analysis, Attack Surface Profiling, and GitHub Source Mapping Improvements
Ostorlab's May 2025 update delivers comprehensive privacy analysis capabilities with 21 new data collection categories and enhanced verification tools. This release introduces specialized Attack Surface scan profiles for optimized security assessments, adds GitHub source code integration for precise vulnerability mapping, and implements QPS rate limiting for controlled scanning. Additional improvements include mobile scan URL regex controls, streamlined Jira integration, and expanded fingerprinting capabilities for improved detection accuracy.
Mon 12 May 2025
Bypassing Obfuscation in Android Apps: A Dual Approach with DalvikFLIRT and LLM-Powered Rewrites
This research introduces a pioneering dual approach that combines signature-based matching (DalvikFLIRT) with LLM-powered code transformation to bypass sophisticated Android app obfuscation, enabling automated security analysis of previously impenetrable code.
Wed 16 April 2025