As mobile applications become the dominant force in the consumer landscape, mobile bots, malware bots and other automated programs pose a significant threat to business integrity, transaction integrity, security, user accounts and business reputation for mobile app owners. Traditional anti-bot offerings are struggling to keep pace with the evolving diversity and sophistication of mobile applications, often trying to force-fit bot defence methods designed for web applications onto mobile frameworks. This mismatch often requires mobile app developers to face implementation complexities, change the mobile application network stack, remove valuable TLS protections or limit bot defence to a single host. The result, for an increasingly mobile economy, is that larger parts of the mobile infrastructure are left vulnerable to mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more.

"Mobile is a unique platform and different technical methods are needed inside Android and iOS apps to detect and stop bots," said Appdome co-creator and CEO Tom Tovar. "We built the first anti-bot solution tailor-made for the way mobile apps and mobile app attacks work, because that's where businesses and consumers need it most."

Appdome's MOBILEBot Defense solution offers several advantages for mobile brands looking to stop mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more including:

• Higher performance mobile anti-bot defence to detect and stop mobile bots on any number of hosts, URLs and API endpoints without added cost.

• Comprehensive mobile device and connection risk detection, providing greater granularity, insight and choice of over 100+ on-device threats like Android and iOS malware, hacking frameworks, instrumentation frameworks, jailbreak, root, Magisk, Zygisk, jailbreak bypass, Man in the Middle (MiTM) attacks and more.

• Deeper mobile bot detection, providing greater granularity, insight and choice over 50+ mobile bot detection methods in Android and iOS apps like auto-tapping apps, keystroke injection, emulators, simulators, virtualisation, dual space, second space, Android players, accessibility malware and more.

• Stronger mobile application fingerprinting using multi-layered methods to distinguish legitimate mobile apps from fake apps, trojan and malware-controlled apps and botnets.

• Advanced bot detection intelligence allowing payloads to include the mobile threat-ID, detailed threat description, threat score, attack geolocation and meta data such as deviceID, device manufacturer, OS, version and 14+ other variables.

• Prepackaged MiTM attack prevention with hardened TLS, active MITM attack prevention, mTLS pre-authentication and more to safeguard connections and the anti-bot payload in transit.

• Prepackaged geo-spoofing defence to catch geo-location spoofing and check for mismatches between variables such as time zone, longitude, latitude and other location attributes.

• Prepackaged bot defence shielding to bind the Appdome's MOBILEBot Defense code to the mobile app and prevent tampering, disabling, bypassing or spoofing anti-bot signals.

• Full support for all mobile languages and frameworks, including Obj-C, C+, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, Cordova and more.

• Full Support for any industry standard WAF to ensure speedy deployment and set up.

• No-Code, no-SDK, fully automated Delivery, purpose built for the mobile DevOps pipeline – no servers or proxies.

"Traditional anti-bot products don't protect the connection, implementation and include only limited payload signals," said Appdome chief product officer Chris Roeckl. "Appdome's MOBILEBot Defense offers a higher performance, more comprehensive and hardened anti-bot solution with less engineering work, less complexity and less requirements on the mobile business."

Appdome MOBILEBot Defense is available for Android and iOS mobile application and CI/CD pipelines under the new Anti-Bot tab on the Appdome Cyber Defense Automation platform. To learn more about this groundbreaking solution or to request a demo, visit www.appdome.com.

About Appdome

Appdome's mission is to protect every mobile app in the world and the people who use mobile apps in their lives and at work. Appdome provides the mobile industry's only mobile application Cyber Defense Automation platform, powered by a patented artificial-intelligence based coding engine, Threat-Events Threat-Aware UX/UI Control and ThreatScope Mobile XDR. Using Appdome, mobile brands eliminate complexity, save money and deliver 300+ Certified Secure mobile app security, anti-malware, anti-fraud, MOBILEBot Defense, anti-cheat, MiTM attack prevention, code obfuscation and other protections in Android and iOS apps with ease, inside the mobile DevOps and CI/CD pipeline. Leading financial, healthcare, government and m-commerce brands use Appdome to protect Android and iOS apps, mobile customers and mobile businesses globally. Appdome holds several patents including U.S. Patents 9,934,017 B2, 10,310,870 B2, 10,606,582 B2, 11,243,748 B2 and 11,294,663 B2. Additional patents pending.

Learn more at www.appdome.com.