Lookout launches tool to expose vulnerable code hidden inside mobile apps
Mobile security company Lookout Inc. today launched the Lookout Mobile Software Exposure Center, a tool that lets organizations continuously identify, assess and prioritize the software exposure risk buried inside the mobile apps running on their employees’ devices.
The capability is delivered as a core part of the company’s Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security platform, using the same console and agent that customers already run across their mobile fleets.
Lookout argues that most enterprise security tools were built for desktop and cloud environments and largely overlook mobile applications, which are assembled from a patchwork of open-source libraries, embedded software development kits and third-party application programming interfaces. That leaves an exposure gap that mobile device management platforms cannot inspect, the company said.
The timing is tied to the arrival of frontier artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which Lookout says have compressed the work of finding exploitable bugs from months of specialized research into hours. The company points to its own Threat Labs discovery in March of DarkSword, a full-chain iOS exploitation framework that targeted vulnerabilities hidden inside legitimate apps, as evidence that automated attacks on unexamined code have already arrived.
