In this article, we will describe what HTTPS tunneling is and how it has been used in mobile banking and payment applications. We also look at some of its vulnerabilities and remedies to the described attacks.

In this article, we introduce the role that access tokens play in mobile banking applications and provide recommendations on how to secure these access tokens. We will also explain why such security measures are important.

Application hardening usually consists in processing an already developed application, and transforming it so to make it difficult / impossible to reverse engineer and tamper.

In this article, we shall focus on the techniques used for protecting keys and in general, cryptographic secrets in the context of mobile banking & payment applications.

The security of mobile banking and payment applications is deeply linked to their capacities in preventing attackers from tampering with them.

Attacks against mobile banking & payment applications often start by using an emulator for the mobile operating system where the targeted application will be run and analyzed.

Unlike other operating systems like Windows, Linux, or OSX, both Android and iOS operating systems are usually shipped with built-in user rights restrictions. The process of removing such restrictions, which is not supported by either Google or Apple, is named rooting and jailbreaking, respectively for Android and iOS.

Here we explain why additional security mechanisms, beyond the mobile OS security features, are needed to protect mobile banking applications from malware and related threats.

Application hardening for mobile apps refers to implementing security measures to protect apps against reverse-engineering or tampering. In this article, we look at the importance of application hardening for mobile banking applications and explore some of the techniques that can be used to shield an app against such attacks.