A mobile application (or mobile app) is a software application that usually runs in smartphones or tablets. Mobile Applications are mainly available to download (either for free or with a small fee) through the corresponding stores like Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World. While in first place mobile apps mainly had to do with productivity(mail, calendar ,contacts) today more and more organizations are launching mobile applications for banking, retail shopping, business transactions, loyalty etc. This introduces a new channel of threats for adversaries that can break into the corporate network via a mobile application.
Today, hacking is pervasive across all the categories of mobile applications and there are many diverse types of hacks and tampering attacks. Mobile Application Hacking is becoming a major economic issue that affects brand reputation, revenue losses, user experience and exposure to liabilities.
ADACOM features a wide range of security assessment steps, customized and tailored to actionable attack scenarios concerning:
- Application Traffic Analysis
- Privacy Issues
- Local Data Storage
- Caching
- Reverse Engineering
- Client-side Injections
- Business Logic