Research & Threat Intel
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 […]
Mobile apps often surface security risks earlier than other enterprise systems. Because mobile app code ships publicly through app stores, attackers can download, reverse engineer and analyze it, gaining a head start in finding data leaks and security vulnerabilities. For mobile AppSec and DevSecOps leaders, this reality makes mobile app security a critical focus for […]
AI Security in Mobile Apps: The Hidden Threat Multiplying Faster Than You Think Mobile applications have become the primary gateway to enterprise data, customer information and business operations. But there’s a rapidly evolving threat that most organizations are completely blind to: artificial intelligence (AI) embedded throughout their mobile app ecosystem. Recent analysis reveals a startling […]
Have you ever wondered how mobile apps always seem to recognize you, even when you’ve never created an account or provided your email? That experience isn’t magic; it’s often the result of mobile app fingerprinting and other invisible tracking techniques. For mobile app developers, AppSec leaders and enterprise mobility managers, this capability poses more than […]