Three years ago, we launched Malloc — a mobile app that has been downloaded by more than 1 million users to protect their devices from spyware, phishing, data trackers, and other online threats. Through this journey, we’ve learned a lot about spyware and hacking attempts!
1) Advanced spyware injects code into vulnerable libraries in your app to steal your data.
2) You can’t rely on the user providing the correct username and password to protect from fraud — the dark web is full of credentials and phishing calls have become an everyday reality.
3) You need app security tools that can operate in real-time.
So we decided to do something about it and we created Malloc App Security! An SDK library that other apps can integrate to protect from spyware, fraud and hacking attempts.
> Existing mobile app security solutions focus on development or pre-release security. Malloc notifies you about abnormalities and vulnerabilities even after you have released it to the store
What issues can be reported only so late?
Any abnormal runtime behavior (changes in permissions, where your app is sending data, new libraries included, code injection and tampering) and vulnerabilities that are detected in the libraries you include after release time.