The AI Threat Multiplier: Securing Mobile Apps in the Automated Era - Ryan Lloyd, Jason Cortlund - ASW #400
Summary
In this episode of Application Security Weekly, host Mike Shima interviews Ryan Lloyd and Jason Cortland from Guardsquare to discuss how AI agents and LLMs are accelerating mobile app threats. The guests explain that while LLMs do not invent new attack techniques, they significantly scale and automate phishing, reverse engineering, and credential harvesting. They highlight the rise of hardcoded secrets in production code due to rapid AI-assisted development and the use of AI to bypass security controls. The discussion covers defensive strategies, including server-side threat telemetry, atte…
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