While mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have built-in safeguards, Quokka researchers have uncovered how device vendors can unintentionally leak app usage and location data.

We’ve scanned millions of apps and discovered hundreds of thousands of privacy and security vulnerabilities. This provides us with an unrivaled perspective with which to assess threats in the mobile landscape. Here are the eight most common types of risky mobile apps that we continue to see exposing individuals and businesses.

BYOD has become a standard practice in many workplaces, but its initial promise of benefits is now being overshadowed by security concerns.

The federal court’s ruling against Google’s Play Store has created a seismic shift in the mobile app ecosystem. As the mandate necessitates drastic changes to Android app stores, enterprise mobile security leaders must be ready for a new era of mobile threats.

Quokka disclosed a serious vulnerability (CVE-2024-40096) affecting the Android mobile app “Who – Caller ID, Spam Block” (version 15.0) that poses a significant risk to users by exposing personally identifiable information (PII) to the system log.

The Gartner “Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2024” looks at an extensive range of categories, including Mobile application security testing (AST) in which Quokka is listed as a sample vendor for the third year in a row.

We are thrilled to announce another remarkable milestone in our ongoing commitment to mobile security: the discovery of our 230th CVE, which Samsung Mobile has officially published.