zLabs Advanced Mobile Security Research and Exploitation Team
The zLabs Advanced Research and Exploitation team is the world’s most qualified and talented collection of researchers focused 100% exclusively on mobile. With backgrounds at companies ranging from eBay and Samsung to Microsoft and Freescale, zLabs researchers are setting the bar for the industry. zLabs researchers discovered and documented attacks such as Stagefright on Android, zIVA on iOS and provided detailed analysis of the FreeRTOS TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities. The team have responsibly disclosed more iOS and Android vulnerabilities than all other major competitors combined.
Zimperium’s zLabs team is a key member of the App Defense Alliance. Leveraging our extensive mobile security research expertise and some of the most renown security researchers in the world, zLabs is working with Google to ensure apps entering the Play Store are free of malicious content. Learn more about it here.
Awards & Recognition
The team's awards, certifications, specialized training and recognition are unparalleled in mobile security. Here is just a subset:
Adobe Independent Security Researchers
AT&T Bug Bounty Hall of Fame
Barracuda Networks BugBounty Hall of Fame
BitDefender Hall of Fame
Hack in the Box 2017 Machine Learning Competition, 1st Prize
Certified Ethical Hacker
CoinBase BugBounty Hall of Fame
Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
cPanel Full Disclosure
eBay Security Researchers
Certified Security Analyst
edX Certificate, Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Spark
EKOPARTY CTF – 1st PLACE
Envato Helpful Hacker
Friends of Offensive Security
Google Application Security Hall of Fame
Kaneva Whitehat Hall of Fame
Microsoft Certified IT Professional Enterprise Administrator
Microsoft Certified IT Professional Server Administrator
Microsoft Security Acknowledged Researchers
MIT: Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, Certificate
Nokia Responsible Disclosure Hall of Fame
Olark Responsible Disclosure Program Special Thanks
PayPal Wall of Fame, Top 10 Researchers
Stanford: Cryptography, Certificate
Stanford: Machine Learning, Certificate
Twitter’s Top Hackers on HackerOne
Zynga Security Whitehat Hall of Fame
SANS GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
GIAC Mobile Device Security Analyst (GMOB)
2024 Global Mobile
Threat Report
Awarded CVEs
In the last few years, zLabs has discovered and responsibly disclosed more mobile vulnerabilities than all other major competitors combined. Beginning in 2017, here is the growing list:
CVE | Year | Researcher | Platform | Severity |
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CVE 2020-9773 | 2020 | Chilik Tamir | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE 2020-992 | 2020 | Nikias Bassen | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2020-3831 | 2020 | Chilik Tamir | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2019-8545 | 2019 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2019-8804 | 2019 | Christy Mathew | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2019-14041 | 2019 | Tamir Zahavi-Brunner | Qualcomm | Unassigned |
CVE -2019-14040 | 2019 | Tamir Zahavi-Brunner | Qualcomm | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-4282 | 2018 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-9411 | 2018 | Tamir Zahavi-Brunner | Android | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-9539 | 2018 | Tamir Zahavi-Brunner | Android | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16522 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16525 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16526 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16528 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16523 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16524 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16527 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16599 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16600 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16601 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16602 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16603 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-16598 | 2018 | Ori Karliner | FreeRTOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-4109 | 2018 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-4087 | 2018 | Rani Idan | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2018-4095 | 2018 | Rani Idan | iOS | Unassigned |
CVE-2017-13253 | 2017 | Tamir Zahavi Brunner | Android | High |
CVE-2017-6999 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6998 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6997 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6996 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6995 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6994 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6989 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.8 |
CVE-2017-6979 | 2017 | Adam Donenfeld | iOS | 7.0 |
CVE-2017-5054 | 2017 | Nicolas Trippar | Android | 8.8 |