The App Was Never Opened
Agentic harnesses change what an LLM can do in mobile app security testing. On its own, a model can name likely risks such as insecure storage, exposed secrets, risky permissions, vulnerable SDKs, backend issues, and privacy exposure, but the app may remain untouched. With the right tools, context, memory, prompts, execution loops, and runtime feedback around it, the model can inspect the app package, observe behavior, follow traffic, connect signals, and leave behind evidence a security team can review. From permission analysis to JEF-powered native exploitation, the difference is visible in the trace: app evidence, tool output, runtime proof, and reproducible steps instead of report-shaped text.
Thu 25 June 2026
Introducing Ostorlab Cyber Models
Ostorlab has launched Cyber Models, a managed, prepaid AI infrastructure tier for Deep Agentic Sc...
Tue 23 June 2026
There Is No Magic Box: Why AI-Era AppSec Needs a Stack
Walk the floor of any major cybersecurity conference today and you will hear about the promise of...
Mon 22 June 2026
The Definitive Guide to Mobile App Vetting: Securing the Enterprise App Ecosystem
This comprehensive guide covers the architecture, risk methodologies, and deployment frameworks r...
Fri 19 June 2026
Introducing Ostorlab App Vetting for the Agentic Era
Ostorlab has launched App Vetting, a mobile application risk assessment solution that helps teams evaluate Android and iOS apps before approval. It combines static analysis, dynamic testing, and secure sandbox execution with continuous monitoring, weighted risk scoring, and agentic workflows to identify vulnerabilities, privacy risks, malware indicators, telemetry behavior, and trust issues while helping teams prioritize what matters most.
Building an AI PR Reviewer Engineers Actually Trust
We built an AI-powered pull request reviewer, shut it down after hallucinations and false positives eroded developer trust, then rebuilt it with better models, broader context, and a more conservative agent architecture. This article shares what we learned about automated code review, why trust matters more than coverage, and how AI reviewers can help engineering teams reduce repetitive review work without replacing human judgment.
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Introducing Ostorlab’s Single Vulnerability Assessment and Dig Deeper
Ostorlab is launching a powerful, highly targeted AI orchestration engine accessible through two distinct UI workflows: Single Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) and Dig Deeper. While both features share the exact same underlying AI logic, capabilities, and "Bring-Your-Own-Key" structure, they are tailored for different entry points in your workflow. SVA is launched as a fresh, standalone scan for targeted, cost-efficient assessments, fix validations, or bug bounty verifications. Dig Deeper is triggered directly from an existing finding within a scan report to instantly investigate false positives or trace exploit paths. Together, they give teams surgical control over how they test and validate individual vulnerabilities.
Tue 02 June 2026
Single Vulnerability Assessment (SVA), Dig Deeper, Scan Report PDF Design Improvement & Multilanguage Support
This release introduces Single Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) for targeted validation, Dig Deeper for granular root-cause investigation, Live Attack Scenario Risk & Status Tracking, Scan Report PDF Design Improvement, full multilanguage localization, and new compliance whitelisting support.
Mon 01 June 2026
Exploit CVE-2026-42208: LiteLLM Unauthenticated SQL Injection via Bearer Token
A technical breakdown of CVE-2026-42208, a CVSS 9.3 critical unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability in the LiteLLM Proxy API. Improper parameterization of the Bearer token within raw SQL queries used for complex multi-table joins allows blind boolean-based timing attacks, enabling unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data including virtual API keys, user information, and LLM spend logs directly from the database.
Fri 22 May 2026
DirtyFrag: Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation via Page-Cache Write
A technical breakdown of DirtyFrag, a pair of Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500, CVSS 7.8 HIGH) that allow any unprivileged local user to obtain root on most major Linux distributions. By chaining an xfrm-ESP and an RxRPC in-place decryption path flaw, both rooted in the same page-cache write primitive as Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail, the exploit overwrites read-only page cache pages without a race condition, achieving near-100% reliability.
Wed 13 May 2026
Exploit CVE-2026-44109 : OpenClaw Feishu Webhook Authentication Bypass to RCE
A technical breakdown of CVE-2026-44109, a CVSS 9.2 Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in OpenClaw (< 2026.4.15). Two fail-open logic inversions in the Feishu/Lark plugin — one in the webhook signature validator and one in the card-action replay guard — allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary events into OpenClaw's command dispatch engine. When the bot has execution tools enabled, this translates directly to unauthenticated remote code execution on the host machine with the privileges of the OpenClaw process.
Thu 07 May 2026
CVE-2026-5205: Critical SSRF in Chatwoot — How a Single Upload Parameter Exposes Cloud Credentials
A deep dive into a critical Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Chatwoot's upload endpoint (≤ v4.12.1). The /api/v1/accounts/:id/upload endpoint accepts an external_url parameter validated only by a scheme check, allowing any authenticated agent to force the server to fetch arbitrary internal URLs. The full response body is returned in-band through ActiveStorage blobs — turning the upload endpoint into a full-read proxy. Live exploitation on a DigitalOcean droplet confirmed in-band exfiltration of cloud metadata including droplet ID, hostname, SSH public keys, and full metadata bundles. Fixed in v4.13.0.
Wed 29 April 2026
DORA Compliance Checklist for Banking & Fintech: Audit-Ready Operational Resilience Validation
A DORA compliance checklist helps banking and fintech organizations evaluate operational resilience across core areas like ICT risk, incident response, resilience testing, third-party governance, and oversight, while tracking implementation progress and supporting audit readiness.
Wed 29 April 2026
Inside BeatBanker / BTMOB: Static Analysis of TV_V_23.apk, a Multi-Stage Android Banking Malware Platform
A static analysis of TV_V_23.apk, a multi-stage Android banking malware platform attributed with high confidence to the BeatBanker / BTMOB cluster. Distributed as a trojanized fork of the open-source LumoLight flashlight app, the sample chains a native bootstrap, a Firebase-driven orchestrator, a cryptominer-and-keepalive helper, and a full operator RAT with accessibility abuse, screen capture, and runtime-configurable banking-app targeting. Covers the full infection chain, anti-analysis design, attribution, IOCs, and defender recommendations.
Tue 28 April 2026