Jan Seredynski

Are you aware that in 2022, mobile apps were constantly targeted by malware that exploited Accessibility and Overlay services?

The Accessibility Service on Android is a powerful feature that allows users with disabilities to interact with their devices in new ways.

TrollStore is a new iOS tool which many malicious users have been awaiting for years.

For developers, reverse engineering is easier than they might think. Attackers use debuggers to understand and tamper with an app’s logic at runtime, iOS and Android developers use the debugger without realizing how the exact same capabilities are used for reverse engineering.

Mobile game cheats are widely used to unlock premium features or obtain an unfair advantage, but these techniques can be used to target any type of app.

Did you know that these types of techniques can also be used to attack any type of mobile app?

In this blog post, we will illustrate how easily attackers can use memory-tampering techniques to cheat in mobile games.

In our recent blog post on how to prevent mobile game tampering, we explained how easily bad actors can use memory-tampering techniques to cheat in mobile games.

we’ll cover our researchers’ findings on popular games, and give you tips on how to protect your app against commonly executed attacks. All research was done ethically, and game publishers were notified of the findings and remediation recommendations.