7+3 Vulnerable Apps To Get Started With Android Penetration Testing

There are currently 3.8 billion smartphone users in the world and this number is doomed to rise in the next years. This, of course, poses a great cyber security threat; I am referring to privacy, but also financial losses.
Mobile applications are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever before. It is crystal clear that one of the best ways to improve the security of an Android application is to perform a Penetration Test.

In this post I am gonna show you 7 Android vulnerable (on purpose) applications that can be a starting point to learn how to conduct a Penetration Testing activity on Android applications.

1. MSTG Hacking Playground

This is without any doubt the most famous one since it was developed by the OWASP itself. It’s been a while since the last update but the challenges are still on point.

This is a collection of iOS and Android mobile apps, that are intentionally build insecure. These apps are used as examples to demonstrate different vulnerabilities explained in the the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide. The current release of…