What Android’s FLAG_SECURE does, how it prevents screenshots and screen recordings of sensitive app content, how to implement it correctly, where it makes sense to use it, and the key limitations and UX trade-offs developers need to understand, including its behavior with casting and external displays.

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

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...

Wed 17 December 2025

Security

AI Engine Triggers Account Takeover via API Version Confusion

Methodical analysis beats blind fuzzing as Ostorlab's AI engine discovers cross-version password ...

Mon 15 December 2025

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.

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

Latest posts

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

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, 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