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Zimperium Blog
Company blog · zimperium.com/blogsecurity
Zimperium Blog is the company blog at zimperium.com, writing about security. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Zimperium blog posts as sources on Android sideloading risks, malware that targets rooted devices, and insecure enterprise app data. Some comments are job postings or links to the company.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Zimperium is the only mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise, securing both mobile devices and applications so they can securely access data.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/the-hidden-risks-of-sideloading-apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Kaspersky detected more than 1.1 million malicious APKs for android in 2024 [^1] As per Apple, they rejected 2 million app submissions in 2024 [^2] So from a birds eye perspective there doesn't appear to be much difference, with iOS even taking the lead, but the key difference is that Kaspersky is not Google, and can only detect malicious software after it has been published. Apple has rejected app submissions over…
Comment linking /blog/the-hidden-risks-of-sideloading-apps
on “Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers”Submitted Rooted Android phones vulnerable due to Android kernel patching flaws as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMajority of users don't sideload any apps according to: https://zimperium.com/blog/the-hidden-risks-of-sideloading-a...
Comment linking /blog/the-hidden-risks-of-sideloading-apps
on “Google restricts Android sideloading”Submitted Apps Are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on Your Phone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionZimperium | variety of engineering positions | Remote or Dallas | Full Time | https://www.zimperium.com/careers/ We secure mobile. Join us.
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Premium Deception: Uncovering a Global Android Carrier Billing Fraud Campaign as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTheres been a consistent pattern of both low quality and advanced malware looking for and targeting the weakness introduced by rooting a device. Here is a recent report of widespread advanced malware looking to see if a device is rooted - https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/badbazaa... Here is a report of malware using root - https://zimperium.com/blog/new-advanced-android-malware-posi... Root does n…
Comment linking /blog/new-advanced-android-malware-posing-as-system-update
on “Introduction to GrapheneOS”Submitted Unmasking the SMS Stealer: Targeting Several Countries with Deceptive Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn Android, apart from being able to run Backtrack on certain Android devices you have tools to MITM WiFi and other fun stuff (on rooted phones) and there is some movement in making it into a developed product, e.g. ANTI: http://www.zimperium.com/Android_Network_Toolkit.html
Comment linking /Android_Network_Toolkit.html
on “Android app swipes contactless credit card”Submitted Your Mobile App, Their Playground: The Dark Side of the Virtualization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOriginal source: https://zimperium.com/blog/your-apps-are-leaking-the-hidden-...
Comment linking /blog/your-apps-are-leaking-the-hidden-data-risks-on-your-phone
on “Enterprise mobile apps riddled with sloppy data security”Submitted ZANTI – Mobile Security Risk Assessment as a story · 1 points
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