GuardSquare on Security Now (Audio)

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Our show today brought to you by GuardSquare. This is, for you mobile app developers. First of all, thank you for the job you do. Mobile apps today are are an inescapable part of life ranging from, I mean, everything from financial services to health care, retail, entertainment. We users trust mobile apps with our most sensitive personal data. That's what makes them great, but it's also a risk. Recently, a survey came out that showed that seventy two percent of organizations have experienced a mobile application security incident in the past year. Ninety two percent of respondents reported rising threat levels over the last two years. Meanwhile, attackers who, you know, want your personal, your user's personal data are constantly finding new ways to attack your mobile app. You know what the latest one is? It's really insidious. They take your app. They reverse engineer it. You could do this actually fairly easily with Claude and and Ghidra and reverse engineer the app, repackage it, modifying it, put a little malware in there, and then distribute that modified app via phishing campaigns or sideloading, third party app stores, all sorts of ways to do this.