Eastern Promises: Mobile VRP Lessons for Bug Hunters

In the past few years, we’ve tried our hand at Vulnerability Reward Programs of all kinds of mobile vendors’ products and attack surfaces. Like many others, we’ve encountered as many misses as hits, learning valuable lessons from the mistakes we (and sometimes the vendors) have made. We presented our experiences in a talk this summer at Troopers and Le Hack. You can download the slides from here. A video of the presentations is not available yet, but the Troopers one will eventually be available here. The talk covered several VR projects which were discussed publicly for the first time. We have now released advisories for all of these newly discussed vulnerabilities, including: