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
Tue 23 September 2025
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
Banking Report 2025: Security at the Core of Mobile Finance
Large-scale security analysis of 500+ top mobile banking apps reveals widespread vulnerabilities,...
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 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.
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.
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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
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.
Tue 20 May 2025
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