Ostorlab's Pentest Engine identified a JavaScript bridge exposure in an Android WebView, allowing unauthenticated native method invocation via deep links. This case study details how the engine bypassed insecure Intent handling to manipulate the native UI, validating a potent social engineering vector while confirming the effectiveness of the underlying sandbox.

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Top Mobile App Security Testing Platforms 2026

Navigate the market for the Top Mobile App Security Testing Platforms 2026 by focusing on the cri...

Mon 05 January 2026

Security

Understanding Android's FLAG_SECURE for Screen Security

What Android’s FLAG_SECURE does, how it prevents screenshots and screen recordings of sensitive a...

Mon 29 December 2025

Security

AI Pentest Engine Discovers Critical WebSocket BFLA in GraphQL Subscriptions

Ostorlab's AI Pentest Engine systematically uncovered a critical Broken Function-Level Authorizat...

Fri 26 December 2025

This release delivers major advancements across the Ostorlab platform, including a significant upgrade to AI Pentest, enhanced web and mobile automation, a full-featured ServiceNow integration, redesigned email notifications, improved threat intelligence capabilities, and comprehensive access control enhancements with role and owner-based permissions.

Methodical analysis beats blind fuzzing as Ostorlab's AI engine discovers cross-version password reset weakness and achieves account takeover without email access.

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Uncovering a Second-Order Data Exfiltration Chain in Modern SPAs

How a second-order client-side data exfiltration chain was discovered in a modern SPA, transforming a simple open redirect into a multi-stage data theft vulnerability through JavaScript analysis and exploit chain validation.

Wed 10 December 2025

Ostorlab AI Pentest Engine / How it Works?

Technical deep dive into Ostorlab AI Pentest Engine inner working, from threat intelligence, risk identification, mobile support to vulnerability validation.

Mon 27 October 2025

Going Beyond: Ostorlab AI Engine Discovers Unknown Vulnerability Classes

Ostorlab’s reasoning-driven AI engine breaks past rule-based limits to surface previously unknown and hard-to-detect vulnerabilities—including WebView Safe Browsing bypasses, SQLi via projections, WebCrypto key exfiltration, and JWT verification ordering flaws—delivering deeper, smarter, complementary security coverage.

Mon 13 October 2025

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 actual CVE and bug bounty findings - not theoretical textbook examples.

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, 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 and proves exfiltration without a single stack trace.

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.

Sun 31 August 2025


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