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When regulators issue billion-dollar fines, enterprises can no longer ignore the mobile app privacy blind spot. Organizations face significant compliance exposure because mobile apps that power the business often rely on hidden third-party SDKs and data flows that security teams aren’t monitoring. Most organizations have invested heavily in securing web applications and cloud infrastructure. Mobile […]
Part 2 of the series following “AI Vibe Coding for Mobile Apps: Easy or Secure?” From “Easy” to “Secure”: What Happens After the First Build In Part 1, we explored how quickly AI can generate a functional mobile app. With great ideas and the right prompts, you can go from vision to working application in […]
Today Vercel confirmed a security incident but the real risk may not be where most teams are looking. Attackers reportedly pivoted through a compromised OAuth grant at Context AI, took over a Vercel employee’s Google account, and accessed customer API keys, source code and database contents. Vercel has advised customers to rotate anything marked “non-sensitive.” […]
A Q&A with NowSecure Cofounder Andrew Hoog TL;DR: What this shift means for your AppSec program AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation thanks to frontier models. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, designed to reason about code, identify vulnerabilities and simulate attack paths, recently demonstrated it could autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities and execute […]
AI-generated (“vibe coded”) mobile apps can be built in hours but often lack basic security controls like encryption, secure storage and compliance requirements. This blog series outlines the process I went through building my own app capturing key observations and lessons useful for those of us using AI for personal and business use. I am […]
The March 2026 axios npm supply-chain attack compromised developer machines, exposed CI/CD pipeline secrets and — in apps using OTA update mechanisms like CodePush — gave attackers a path to production without touching App Store review. A software supply-chain attack targets the dependencies, build systems and distribution pipelines used to create applications — rather than […]
Executive Summary Recent reporting on the White House mobile app has overstated several security and privacy concerns by focusing on what the app could do rather than what it actually does in practice. NowSecure analyzed the app using static and dynamic mobile application security testing. We found no evidence of unauthorized location tracking described in […]
How enterprise mobility teams can detect hidden AI features and reduce mobile app risk. Enterprise mobility and security teams face a growing challenge: AI capabilities quietly appear inside the mobile apps employees use every day, creating mobile shadow AI risk. TL;DR Enterprise mobility teams approve hundreds — sometimes thousands — of third‑party mobile apps for […]
The PhantomRaven campaign shows how attackers can hide malware outside the npm registry using RDD, allowing malicious code to execute during installation while bypassing many traditional security scanners. This blog addresses why it is a particularly critical risk for mobile applications and how using AI during the development process increases this risk. TL;DR — PhantomRaven […]
It doesn’t take a particle physicist to figure out that authenticated mobile app security testing will give you better results. But I never really had data to back it up. Recently, NowSecure CTO David Weinstein analyzed about 105,000 mobile app assessments — roughly 5,000 authenticated and 100,000 unauthenticated, across both Android and iOS — and […]