Mobile Security Improved cybersecurity is coming soon to the mobile app you use in time to protect yourself from the rising tide of data breaches. Malware attacks, and AI-powered bot attacks.
Mobile app security company Appdome, January 1st. 23 has released technology updates to its mobile application security tools. The new digital security product will help protect against more than 100 attack vectors that plague the digital sphere.
More than just another security solution, MobileBot Security offers comprehensive protection designed to combat increasingly sophisticated threats in the mobile channel. Key features include robust protection against counterfeit, weaponized, and malware-driven applications.
This protection is needed when fraudulent apps pose as legitimate apps to steal user data and flood app stores.
Moreover. The product offers a strong barrier against bot doses and credential stuffing, which have become common methods for cybercriminals to bypass standard security measures. These attacks can lead to large-scale data breaches, causing significant financial and reputational damage to a business.
It can also prevent DDoS attacks that could damage an organization’s online services and prevent account takeovers that could lead to unauthorized access to user accounts. Both have profound implications for a business and its customers.
MobileBot Defense’s new extension capabilities make it fully portable to any web application firewall (WAF). According to Appdome, these extensions can save mobile brands millions of dollars, extend the life of existing WAF infrastructure, and reduce the cost of extending anti-bot protection to the mobile channel.
“Most mobile Security brands have different WAF environments or want to change, add, or simply update part of their WAF environment. Thought Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome.
“By combining a no-code, no-SDK, and server-less value proposition with full portability for bot protection, now has the operational suppleness to extend bot protection to the mobile channel without major upgrades in the WAF environment.”
Mobile Security Apps in Bot Attack Crosshairs
Mobile Security apps are typically more attacked than web apps, with more varied and complex threats. Additionally. According to Alan Bavosa. Vice president of security products at Appdome, they are at risk of a growing number of malicious bot attacks on mobile apps, a significant and alarming trend in cybersecurity.
“There are thousands of unique attack vectors that attackers use in the mobile channel, attacking the device, the mobile app, and the network—often simultaneously.
This includes device/OS threats such as rooting/jailbreaking, rootkits/root hiding/jailbreaking and root discovery bypass, emulators/simulators/virtualization tools, and kernel-based attacks. Add to this lean application coercions such as auto clickers, code injection, overlay attacks. Fake applications/clones, network threats such as MitM attacks, SSL pinning bypass, malicious proxies, session replay attacks. Etc.
- The growing number of bot attacks on mobile apps, often using artificial intelligence, is significant. “They pose a thoughtful threat to the security and functionality of mobile applications, users, and brands,” he advised.
- AI’s role in the sophistication and success of these attacks includes its ability to mimic human behavior and bypass traditional security measures. AI-powered bots can also adjust their strategies based on evolving defense mechanisms, making them difficult to detect and combat.
- Mobile security platform developer Zimperium said in its 2023 Global Mobile Threat Report that the total number of exclusive mobile malware samples increased by 51%. This surge is principally due to mobile devices becoming the primary endpoint for personal and professional use. Making them a prime target for attackers.
- “Banking Trojans, in particular. Provide a huge ROI for attackers, and their prevalence has increased dramatically as attackers use new techniques to bypass traditional detection methods. While mobile devices will continue to become the primary endpoint in people’s lives in the coming year. We expect this trend of increasing attacks and malware to continue to grow exponentially,” Zimperium Vice President of Pre-Sales Americas Kern Smith said in a statement.
- Switching to Mobile Security ID technology can provide an alternative to traditional mobile application security. One of the reasons the shift to mobile IDs is happening so quickly is that they are much more challenging to counterfeit than physical IDs. which can be tricked stolen. Counterfeited, or manipulated in various complex and not-yet-perfect ways. Suggests Andrey Stanovnov. Co-founder and technical director of IDScan.
As individuals and businesses use mobile IDs and their verification processes, we may see an increase in the number of fake ID documents in hopes of getting past ever-increasing digital verification. That’s why businesses must ensure that physical and digital verification systems are equipped to combat illegal credentials.
Better Bot Defense
Unlike other anti-bot protection products. Users can use the Appdome Defense platform with any web application firewall in the cloud, hosted or on-premises. Additionally. It requires no software development kit (SDK), no mobile app or server code changes. And offers full support for all mobile languages and platforms.
Appdome also introduced the ability to monitor bot attacks in real-time in its ThreatScope Mobile XDR.
The new bot detection and analysis service allows mobile brands to measure, monitor. Investigate. report, and respond to threats and attacks on their WAF infrastructure. It provides SOC-level visibility into mobile bot attacks and threats with full attack detail on specific applications. devices, OSes. Releases, and more without needing a separate analysis package, SDK, or device agent.
“Portability and visibility offer many monetary benefits for brands with a large or growing installed base of mobile apps.
“Whereas other anti-bot products force developers to create disparate offerings using SDKs that only work with the SDK vendor’s WAF.
He said that Appdome’s bot protection allows brands to maintain existing WAF investments. Unify visibility and response to bot activity across WAFs. And separately address bot protection and WAF infrastructure.
Rate Limiting Protection
Appdome brings uniqueness to its security platform. MobileBot Defense includes a new in-app rate-limiting feature that stops mobile DDoS attacks daily. Mobile brands can express Appdome rate limiting by setting thresholds for the number of attempts allowable to an endpoint within certain time intervals.
“One of the biggest tests facing mobile apps and app security is that mobile developer teams and processes have evolved years before traditional security practices. Especially with ubiquitous automation.
According to him, if you look at the toolchain development teams use in a typical CI/CD pipeline. You will see that everything is automated and the tools work without glitches.
Regarding security, the tools. Products, and services offered by legacy security companies, such as SDKs. Are manual and require coding work and constant code updates/modifications. This places extreme demands on the most resource-intensive organization – mobile development/engineering.
Appdome is bringing to market the industry’s first and only mobile cybersecurity development tool that allows our customs to unify their mobile app security supplies into a single CI/CD pipeline that the organization already uses to develop and release mobile apps. He said. . .
Multi-Vendor Compatibility
According to Bavosa, other Mobile security solutions cannot protect the mobile channel from mobile bots from different vendors. WAF providers have their SDKs that must be manually coded into the mobile app for the solution to work on all mobile devices.
An application can only have one Web Application Firewall SDK. As with most large enterprises, you have a heterogeneous WAF environment. In this case, you need to implement two or more SDKs, and these solutions will not work with each other because several SDKs will fight and cause the mobile app to crash.
On the other hand, Appdome MobileBot Defense works with WAFs from different vendors. This interoperability provides enormous financial and operational benefits for mobile Security brands.
