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Ostorlab has launched Agentic Deep Scan, a next-generation vulnerability scanner that validates real-world risks in iOS, Android (soon harmonyOS), and web applications. With Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support, teams can safely explore its powerful scanning capabilities while keeping full control of their data and costs.

Security

That Time a Zero (could have) Broke the Internet's Plumbing (CVE-2026-0915)

An AI-assisted analysis uncovered a 30-year-old uninitialized buffer vulnerability in glibc's _ns...

Jan 21, 2026

Product

AI Pentest Upgrades, ServiceNow Integration, Redesigned Email Notifications, and Enhanced Platform Controls

This release delivers major advancements across the Ostorlab platform, including a significant up...

Dec 17, 2025

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...

Oct 13, 2025

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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

Sep 23, 2025

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.

Sep 22, 2025

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.

Sep 15, 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.

Sep 04, 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.

Aug 31, 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.

Aug 28, 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

Aug 11, 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.

Aug 07, 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.

Aug 01, 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.

Jul 28, 2025