Mobile Application Hardening: Build vs Buy Blog
Mobile Application Hardening: Build vs Buy

Any competent team can build hardening. Few can maintain it through four OS releases while shipping a roadmap. The recurring costs, when building is right, and the hybrid most teams land on.

Certificate pinning on a mobile app connection and how it is bypassed
Certificate Pinning: Why It Fails and What to Pair...

Certificate pinning is bypassed routinely, and not because the cryptography is weak. Why the check is the target, the two operational failures, and the four controls to pair it with.

Android App Protection: A Practical Guide Blog
iOS App Protection: A Practical Guide

iOS is harder to attack, which produces the most common planning mistake: treating harder as handled. What the platform gives you, what survives anyway, and the five iOS priorities.

Device binding and anti-screen-capture controls on a banking mobile app
Device Binding, Anti-Screen-Capture, Malware Detec...

BNM RMiT, MAS TRM, HKMA and BSP converge on the same mobile app controls. What device binding, anti-screen-capture and malware detection actually require, and what examiners ask to see.

Root detection and jailbreak detection on a compromised mobile device
Root and Jailbreak Detection: How It Works and How...

Almost every banking app has root detection, and much of it can be bypassed from a public guide. How the four detection methods work, the three bypass approaches, and what actually holds.

Mirax in Malaysia: How This Android Trojan Attacks Blog
Mirax in Malaysia: How This Android Remote Access ...

A Facebook ad for cheap goods, a phone call, a remote access trojan, and six figures gone. The Mirax attack chain stage by stage, and why controls positioned away from the device report nothing.

Android App Protection: A Practical Guide Blog
Android App Protection: A Practical Guide

Android carries more threat activity for structural reasons. What makes the platform different, the six Android-specific attacks, why ProGuard is only layer one, and a practical priority order.

What is Anti-Tampering? How Apps Detect Modification Blog
What Is Anti-Tampering? How Apps Detect Modificati...

Anti-tampering is how an app knows it is no longer the app you shipped. The four detection mechanisms, why each fails alone, and what the app should do once it knows.

Runtime App Protection: What Your App Sees While I...

The specific signals a protected app produces while it runs, what confidence each carries, and how aggregating them turns session defence into threat intelligence about your own user base.

Zero-Day Attacks on Mobile Apps: What Real-Time Th...

Zero-day attacks on mobile apps use techniques no signature has catalogued yet. How behaviour-based detection closes the gap, and what real-time visibility looks like.

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