Let Appdome build and maintain mobile anti-bot capabilities in your Android & iOS apps and extend the power of your Web Application Firewall to the mobile channel. Stop bot attacks, bot fraud, credential stuffing, and ATOs fast. No SDKs.
Let Appdome build and maintain bot-protection in your Android & iOS apps for you. Appdome's MobileBOT™ Defense combines mobile app, session, and device fingerprints with 400+ threat signals to identify and stop bot attacks, bot fraud, malicious logins, credential stuffing, and session risk in every API request.
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In each API request, MobileBOT™ Defense sends mobile app, session, and device identity and any active threat data to your WAF or API gateway —giving you the ability to block scripts, bot farms, fake devices, and fake apps, and evaluate mobile API risks like deepfakes, spyware, and trojan malware before granting API access.
Appdome runs inside the mobile app and feeds real-time mobile app, device, and session-risk data to your backend. With Appdome, detect API requests coming from non-trusted sources, fake or compromised devices, deepfakes, spyware, and other threats, all without changing your WAF, adding API gateways, or anti-bot SDKs.
Appdome’s mobile bot defense crushed our bot and API attack rates - real-time protection with zero code or performance hit.”
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Start a 14-day free trial and use Appdome to build, monitor, and respond to bot attacks with Mobile Bot Defense in your Android & iOS apps. With Appdome, AI codes, builds and maintains the anti-bot features in your mobile apps for you. Protect mobile APIs and endpoints against brute-force bot attacks, credential stuffing, DDoS, and ATOs. Avoid paying for bad traffic, WAF changes, and manual implementation of outdated anti-bot SDKs. Let Appdome do the work for you.
Appdome's AI code generation and modular architecture let you deploy multiple bot defense features as plugins in Android & iOS apps continuously in your CI/CD pipeline. With Appdome, you can get all the benefits of bot detection, like fraud signals, device intelligence, and bot protection in one solution. If you want to eliminate big Epics and manual work in your mobile anti-bot defense journey, Appdome is the right choice for you. See below for the top use cases for Appdome MobileBOT™ Defense.
Mobile applications contain APIs for critical functions, such as sign-up, login, purchase, payment, money transfer, and password management. Bot attacks and bot farms target these APIs with fake devices, fake locations, and modified, compromised, malware-controlled, or weaponized mobile applications. Appdome's MobileBOT™ Defense makes it easy to identify bad, malicious, and at-risk mobile apps, devices, and sessions and stop all types of bot attacks in the mobile channel. Appdome detects 400+ unique threat vectors that attackers use to launch bot attacks, bot fraud, and bypass WAF and API protection layers.
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Credential stuffing is large-scale password guessing that leads to account takeovers and data breaches. Attackers can automate stolen username/password pairs and flood login endpoints using fake apps, AI-generated password mutations, emulators and other techniques. MobileBOT™ Defense neutralizes these attacks by binding each request to immutable device, install, and app fingerprints and attributing risk signals to each identity. These fingerprints are exchanged during the TLS handshake and can be validated by any WAF, making it easy to detect non-trusted or at-risk sessions used in credential stuffing attacks.
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Modern bots don’t just strike at login—they attack every stage of a mobile lifecycle. MobileBOT™ Defense inspects each connection request to protected APIs, hosts, and URLs, comparing them against hundreds of Android and iOS attack vectors. Risk factors can include deepfakes, device tampering, OS manipulation, GEO spoofing, and more. Threat vectors can be configured by API within each bot defense profile. Security teams can feed this rich risk data into WAF rules, designing precise bot defense policies that evolve with the threat landscape. This allows organizations to block only the traffic that poses real danger while maintaining smooth sessions for trusted users.
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Not every account takeover relies on brute force. Attackers now employ bots to simulate human gestures, keystrokes, and clicks at sign-up, or to use deepfakes, spyware, and AI-driven scams at login. MobileBOT™ Defense enables brands to defend against these advanced threats with over 400+ configurable defense signals, tailored to each API and workflow. By validating the authenticity of every action, session, and device, organizations gain strong protection from targeted ATOs. Integration with WAF infrastructure ensures that policies are enforced consistently and in real time. The result is a smarter, layered approach to protecting customer accounts from takeover.
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Traditional rate limits applied only at the network edge are not enough to stop weaponized mobile apps. MobileBOT™ Defense gives brands the ability to enforce rate limits directly inside the mobile application itself, blocking volumetric abuse before it hits backend systems. Developers and security teams can define limits per API, host, or URL, setting maximum thresholds for requests per second at the app level. By using the computing power of the mobile device to enforce these rules, organizations gain more granular control than WAF-side limits alone can provide. This dual-layered approach prevents automated abuse while ensuring fair usage for legitimate customers.
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Fingerprinting is essential to knowing whether traffic is legitimate or malicious. Unlike other solutions that rely on tokens or cookies that attackers can replay, MobileBOT™ Defense cryptographically fingerprints every legitimate mobile application using certificate-based trust. These app identities are inserted into the TLS handshake and validated using mTLS, ensuring each request can only come from a trusted app. This creates a binding between the app and the backend that attackers cannot spoof. By adopting certificate-based application fingerprinting, mobile brands can stop bots that attempt to masquerade as real apps and protect APIs from impersonation.
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MobileBOT™ Defense is built to work seamlessly with any industry-standard Web Application Firewall, giving mobile brands and enterprises several advantages, including a rapid and easy path to anti-bot protection, freedom of choice over their WAF provider, and significant cost savings compared to replacing a WAF provider just to get bot protection. In addition, Appdome's MobileBOT Defense provides greater ease of implementation through its no-code, no-SDK, no-server-based delivery model, and more granularity of defense and intelligence than WAF-provided anti-bot protection options.
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Attackers frequently reuse the same compromised devices across multiple bot campaigns and fraud schemes. MobileBOT™ Defense extends its protection with IDAnchor™ Device ID, an immutable, OS-independent identifier unique to each Android or iOS device. This fingerprint survives resets and cannot be spoofed or altered by attackers, creating a trustworthy signal of device history. Organizations can use it to identify and block known “bad” devices tied to mule accounts, bot farms, or repeated ATO attempts. In cases where suspicious devices appear, policies can trigger MFA or additional security steps to protect sensitive workflows.
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SDK-based bot defenses are often the weakest link because they can be removed, bypassed, or reverse engineered. MobileBOT™ Defense is embedded directly into the protected mobile app and fully bound to it, preventing attackers from tampering with the logic. In addition, the implementation is deeply obfuscated, making it extremely difficult to discover or disable. This hardened design ensures that all anti-bot methods remain intact and effective, even under sophisticated attacks. With protections delivered inside the app itself, enterprises achieve a much higher level of assurance than with SDK-only solutions.
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Protecting the payload is just as important as detecting the bot. MobileBOT™ Defense secures every anti-bot value and data element end-to-end, including at rest, in memory, and in transit. All payloads are encrypted, and connections to protected APIs benefit from active MitM prevention and certificate pinning. This means attackers cannot intercept, alter, or replay the anti-bot data exchanged between app and backend. By designing secure payload delivery as a standard feature, Appdome ensures that bot defenses remain trustworthy in every deployment.
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MobileBOT Defense offers Safe and At-Risk Session headers, providing dozens of meta-data intelligence parameters like Device State, Connection Risk, GEO_Spoofing detection, and much more. This data, including timestamps, device details, and GEO-Source, integrates with any WAF for real-time monitoring and blocking bot activity. Appdome Bot Source and BotID further enhance threat mapping to specific users and sessions, enabling precise rules and automated enforcement during key events like login, password reset, transactions, etc with full visibility to defend against all forms of API abuse and attacks.
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Mobile applications evolve constantly, with brands releasing dozens of updates each year while OS versions and attack techniques change just as quickly. MobileBOT™ Defense is built for this pace, using AI to automate updates, adapt protections, and fit directly into the mobile DevOps toolchain. This ensures defenses remain current without slowing development or requiring manual intervention. Developers keep their release cadence, and security teams gain confidence that each app update is protected. By combining automation, AI, and DevSecOps best practices, Appdome delivers the most practical and sustainable anti-bot defense for enterprise mobile apps.
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With Appdome, you can meet mobile anti-bot protection requirements without sacrificing your engineering freedom, development choices, other features, or the user experience.
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