Ostorlab Team
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, symboli...
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 XX...
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 prom...
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.
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.
Latest posts
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
CNIL Standard Integration, SARIF Support, Copilot Enhancements, and Smarter Vulnerability Analysis.
This release introduces CNIL standard support, SARIF export, and improved vulnerability insights with locations and advanced search. Copilot is more powerful, performance is faster, and asset and remediation workflows are smoother.
Mon 07 April 2025
Ostorlab's Security Scanner GitHub App,Ticket Aggregation V2, Copilot Launch, and Enhanced Security Features
February's update introduces Ticket Aggregation V2 and Ostorlab Copilot, alongside improvements to reporting capabilities and detection mechanisms. These updates enhance vulnerability management, user experience, and security analysis across the platform.
Thu 20 February 2025
Effective Vulnerability Ticketing System with Ostorlab
This article announces Ostorlab's vulnerability ticketing system V2 and how it automates and streamlines the entire process of managing, and remediating security vulnerabilities through features like automated ticket creation, lifecycle management, policy enforcement, and integration with existing tools.
Tue 18 February 2025
AI-Automated Attack Surface Management: The Future of Cybersecurity Discovery
This article explores AI-automated attack surface management, its impact on cybersecurity, and how it automates asset discovery and vulnerability detection.
Fri 14 February 2025
AI-automated Attack surface, Privacy Analysis, Wordpress agent, and more.
Ostorlab's January 2025 update introduces AI-powered attack surface discovery and improves IDE performance. The release expands detection capabilities with new secret and privacy checks, adds a WordPress security agent, and implements additional threat fingerprints and CVE support. A new Privacy profile for compliance analysis is launched, along with enhancements to scan options and vulnerability reporting. These updates aim to improve asset analysis, security assessments, and risk mitigation across various digital environments.
Mon 20 January 2025
Advanced Search Query, API Endpoints, Tons of new detections, and more.
The December release introduces advanced inventory search with Python-like syntax, enhanced asset status filtering, API endpoint autodiscovery, and comprehensive scan summaries. Additionally, it adds GraphQL vulnerability detection, domain takeover prevention, new CVE detections, privacy compliance checks, and Jira integration improvements for streamlined issue management.
Mon 02 December 2024