Top Game Modding Techniques and How to Prevent Them
Cheating in mobile games is a huge issue that plagues every mobile game developer and publisher. In this blog, I describing the most common cheating tools and how they work.
Choose the ONE platform that can secure, monitor, and respond with mobile injection prevention in your DevOps pipeline. Leverage AI and ML to automate, adapt, and code Certified Secure™ injection prevention features such as shell code injection prevention, process injection prevention, memory protection, library injection prevention and more in Android & iOS apps with ease. Improve injection attack defense while eliminating engineering work, coding, SDKs, and servers. Accelerate delivery. Save money.
Mobile brands and enterprises use Appdome to deliver all the injection attack prevention needed in Android & iOS apps on demand. Build and adapt the security model on the fly with no impact on the CI/CD pipeline. Enjoy continuous compliance, with less work, less cost, no coding, no SDKs and zero complexity.
Get the Guide >
When injection attacks happen in your Android & iOS apps, Appdome's Threat-Events™ intelligence framework delivers rich data and telemetry to your mobile application so you stay in control of the brand experience, gather threat intelligence, stop fraud, and help users with remediation fast.
Get the Guide >
With ThreatScope™ Mobile XDR, you can prove the value of the injection attack prevention features in your published Android & iOS apps, keep track of new and emerging cyber security threats across 300+ attack vectors, and respond to any attack impacting your mobile app, brand or business automatically.
Get the Guide >
We’re mobile developers too. We built Appdome to make it easy on mobile developers to maintain agility and continuously deliver anti-injection attack features in Android & iOS apps built in any coding language or framework including Obj-C, C+, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Maui, Xamarin, and more. Plugins and APIs are out-of-the-box ready for all parts of the mobile DevOps ecosystem. Contact us to learn more!
Appdome's Prevent Code Injection feature detects and defends mobile applications from code injection and process injection attacks, such as shared object and dylib injection on iOS and reflective DLL injection on Android. Code injection involves inserting or injecting malicious code into the memory space or context of a running process, typically to modify the app's behavior, bypass restrictions, including purchase and authentication restrictions, access the process memory and resources.
Learn More >
Appdome's Block Memory Editing Tools feature detects and defends mobile applications against mobile app memory editing and memory injection attacks. These attacks are used to inject data into a mobile application memory, alter account values, including mobile game or loyalty points and synthetic currencies, bypass restrictions, fake login, reuse or replay sessions or cheat inside mobile games and applications.
Learn More >
Appdome's Detect Hooking Frameworks and Anti-Swizzling features detect and defend mobile apps from attacks that intercept function calls within a running process and redirecting them to the attacker's code, including function hooking (intercepting function calls), method swizzling (replacing or augmenting methods in Objective-C), or event hooking (intercepting system events or messages). By hooking into functions that handle dynamic code execution or loading, attackers can inject custom code into the mobile app's execution flow.
Learn More >
Appdome's Prevent Keystroke Injection feature detects and defends mobile applications from keystroke injection attacks. Keystroke injection is used to enter or flood data, taps and other actions in mobile apps to masquerade as real users filling out forms, submitting requests, or performing transactions. Keystroke injection can also be used to deceive users into entering sensitive information, such as triggering password reset or fake login screens, or pop-up dialogs and notifications requesting malicious permissions.
Learn More >
Appdome's Anti-Frida toolkit features detect all forms of Frida instrumentation, including Frida-server, inject-mode, gadget-mode, custom Frida modules, Frida with Objection scripts and more. Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit. It's used as an advanced debugging, reverse engineering and hacking framework. It allows an attacker to change a target mobile application behavior, bypass security measures, and extract information. If you need to detect or block Frida toolkit, pass mobile app pen tests or protect your app from Frida, learn what Appdome can do for you!
Learn More >
Appdome's Prevent Auto-Clicking feature detects and defends mobile applications against tap injection attacks. Tap injection attacks are used in click fraud, i.e., impersonating user clicks on advertisements or sponsored content in mobile apps to generate fraudulent impressions or clicks. Tap injection attacks are also used in loyalty program and referral program abuse, or to cheat in mobile games, by impersonating real users tapping on buttons, collecting rewards, or performing in-game actions.
Learn More >
Appdome's Block Shell Code feature detects and defends mobile applications from shell code injection attacks. Shell code is typically a small piece of machine code designed to be executed directly by a system's shell, operating system, or other execution environment. For example, attackers can inject shellcode into mobile apps running on compromised mobile devices, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data theft, or other malicious activities.
Learn More >
Appdome offers mobile brands and enterprises the only true Accessibility Service Malware and ATS Malware defense for Android applications. Detect and defend against the use of Android AccessibilityService abuse and ATS malware attacks, such as BrasDex, Xenomorph, CraxRat, Octo, and more. Defend against user input and data harvesting, OTP hijacking, transaction hijacking, Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and more from inside the Android application, gather data on the attack, set trusted accessibility services and more with ease.
Learn More >
When mobile injection attacks happens in your Android or iOS game, you don't have to block to stop the attack. Instead, mobile game makers and publishers can use Threat-Events™ to transform the cheat into a monetizable moment for your mobile game business. Use Threat-Events to gather data on the cheat method, tool or app used and use that data to make offers, promotions, sponsorships, and create affiliate programs with cheat developers.
Learn More >
Appdome automates the work out of mobile injection attack prevention so your engineering team can focus on what they do best - building great mobile apps. Let's face it, delivering continuous Mobile Cheat Prevention is extremely hard. SDKs, Wrappers and CLIs promise to make it "easier." But actually making these products fit inside your changing Android & iOS apps and your highly dynamic DevOps process is too hard, complex and time consuming. If you're looking for a better way to deliver mobile injection attack prevention, try Appdome..
Learn More >
Get a price quote and start saving money on mobile injection protection today. Appdome’s mobile injection attack prevention helps mobile brands save $millions of dollars by avoiding unnecessary SDKs, server-side deployments, engineering work, support complexity, code changes and more.
Cheating in mobile games is a huge issue that plagues every mobile game developer and publisher. In this blog, I describing the most common cheating tools and how they work.
ThreatScope Mobile XDR provides real-time mobile attack and threat intelligence for all android and iOS apps from inside CI/CD DevSecOps, no agents required.