Capability
Mobile application testing
The attack surface of a mobile app goes deeper than most development teams ever look. We test all of it from the perspective of someone trying to get in.
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The PROBLEM
Automated scanning finds what it already knows to look for.
Most mobile app security tools focus on static analysis and surface lists of false positives. They miss the dynamic vulnerabilities, the ones that only appear when the app is running, when an API is being called, when a session token can be intercepted in transit. A scanner will not decrypt credentials while someone is logging in, a specialist will.
The mobile app is the binary, the APIs it talks to, the data it stores on the device, and the trust it places in everything around it. All of it needs testing. A scan covers one layer of that, whereas we cover all of them.
Developers ship fast.
Security is rarely the last check before release. Hard-coded credentials, unprotected APIs, and sensitive data in the binary make it into production because nobody looked for them before the app went live.
Scanners skim the surface.
Automated tools flag what they already have signatures for. They do not reverse engineer binaries, manipulate runtime behavior, or chain low-severity findings into a critical exploit. A specialist does.
Attack beyond the baseline.
Every API call, every piece of data stored on the device, every trust relationship the app extends to a third party. The boundary of a mobile app is not where most people think it is.
we attack the app your users trust.
Real attackers don’t pick one technique and stop. They find a foothold and pull on everything connected to it. The Swarm works the same way.
iOS and Android applications
Native and cross-platform apps across both platforms, including Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, Flutter, React Native, and Xamarin. If it runs on a device, we can test it.
APIs and backend services
Most activities within a mobile app trigger API calls. We proxy and test those calls for authorization misconfigurations, data exposure, and logic flaws, including the endpoints developers assume nobody will find.
Static analysis
We reverse engineer the application binary, looking for hard-coded credentials, sensitive strings, private keys, and misconfigurations packaged into the app before it ever reaches a device.
Dynamic analysis
Testing the app while it is in use. Intercepting traffic, manipulating runtime behavior, and identifying what the application exposes during use that was never supposed to be visible.
Device and data security
Screenshot protection, lock screen enforcement, local data storage, and what a third-party application or malware on the same device can see or access. The attack surface does not stop at the app boundary.
Source code review
Where access to the codebase is available, we conduct manual code review alongside binary analysis, finding vulnerabilities at the source rather than inferring them from compiled output.
We know that real attack surfaces don’t come in neat categories. If yours doesn’t fit above, tell us what you’re working with.
What a mobile application Finding Looks Like
Example: Mobile application engagement finding
Critical
Finding
Hard-coded credentials discovered within the application binary gave access to a third-party notification service. The API key was embedded directly in the compiled app and was recoverable through static analysis alone.
Impact
The exposed key could have been used to send arbitrary push notifications to the application’s entire user base, any content, any link, from an apparently legitimate source.
Remediation
Remove credentials from the binary. Store secrets in the platform keychain or keystore. Rotate the exposed key immediately and audit all third-party service credentials within the codebase.
Board impact
Mass notification abuse at scale causes immediate reputational damage. Customer trust built over years is lost in a single incident.
Technical impact
Full write access to the notification service via an exposed API key recovered through binary reverse engineering. No further authentication required.
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HOW WE attack SAFELY.
Your subscription starts with your Attack Strategy. What matters most, and what adversaries would target first.
Your Swarm then delivers realistic attacks against your whole organization, and works within mutually agreed parameters without interruption to operations.
1
Authorization
Every engagement is explicitly authorized in writing before anything begins. Scope, target applications, permitted techniques, and stop conditions are defined and signed off.
2
Permission
Hard limits on what we test and how. No active testing against production APIs beyond agreed boundaries. No techniques outside what is defined in the rules of engagement.
3
Care for the app
We test binaries statically without touching live systems. Where dynamic testing touches production, we throttle requests and avoid polluting live user data.
4
Prove
What held, what broke, and what could have been reached. Board-ready evidence delivered in real time via the Portal, with direct access to the people who found it so you can act on it.
Constant Cyber Attack™
We become the threat. You get the proof.
You don’t outpace attackers by waiting for your next test. You do it by facing an adversary that thinks, acts and strikes like they do.
Constant Cyber Attack gives you a dedicated Swarm of ethical hackers, putting your whole organization under relentless offensive pressure across digital, physical and social vectors. One simple subscription. Clear proof of what’s exposed and what to fix.
Digital. Social. Physical.
Your Swarm attacks across digital, physical and social vectors, chaining weaknesses to prove what a real attacker could achieve.
Constant pressure.
Your Swarm keeps attacking as your business evolves, adapting to changing systems, people and risks. Constant pressure, not a one-off test.
One simple subscription.
One subscription is all you need. Combine continuous offensive security, penetration testing, red teaming, bug bounty and more in one simple subscription.
Sharper, battle-tested SOC
Improve detection times
Fewer false positives
Prove ROI of security tooling
Stories from the Swarm
These stories are real, but the names are deeply redacted. We’ll tell you how we uncovered the threats no one else could see, and why constant cyber attack is the best way to outpace cyber threats.
Become a story well told. Contact us to discuss how Constant Cyber Attack will help you outpace cyber threats.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We test across both platforms and any application language they come in, including native apps built in Swift, Kotlin, or Java, and cross-platform apps built in Flutter, React Native, or Xamarin.
No. Automated tools can perform both static and dynamic analysis, but they produce significant false positives and miss the vulnerabilities that require human judgment to find and chain. They cannot probe application logic, follow the access paths a real attacker would take, or confirm whether a finding is genuinely exploitable in your specific environment. Scanning is a starting point. It still needs a specialist at the end of it.
Yes. API testing is a core part of every mobile app engagement. Every call the app makes is in scope, including authentication flows, data endpoints, and backend services.
Yes. Static analysis of the binary has no impact on the live app. Where dynamic testing touches production APIs, we throttle requests carefully and avoid polluting live user data.
Primarily the application binary and test account credentials. We prefer the raw application files directly rather than distribution platforms.
Yes, where access to the codebase is available. Code review runs alongside binary analysis and identifies vulnerabilities at the source rather than inferring them from compiled output. It adds time to the engagement but significantly increases coverage.
In real time via the CovertSwarm Portal as we find them, not in a PDF weeks after the engagement ends. You have direct access to the team throughout to ask questions, validate fixes, and request retests.
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It starts with a 30-minute Attack Discovery call.
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