Krishna Vishnubhotla
VP Product Strategy
Zimperium
Krishna Vishnubhotla is a cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience in technology and financial services, specializing in mobile security, product strategy, and fraud prevention. For more than a decade at Zimperium, he has been instrumental in developing mobile security solutions that safeguard financial institutions against fraud, evolving threats, and regulatory risks. A frequent FS-ISAC, BlackHat and Aviation ISAC speaker, Krishna provides thought leadership at the intersection of mobile, AI security, digital banking, and compliance—helping global organizations strengthen resilience in an increasingly mobile-first world.
You're Using AI to Build Apps. Attackers Are Using AI to Break Them.
Lightning talk
Zimperium's research team studied 34 distinct malware families targeting 1200 apps across 90 countries.
The pattern behind all of them isn't a new exploit or a clever trick. It's a set of assumptions App Dev teams are making about their own security controls, assumptions that no longer hold. And the same AI tools helping you ship faster are helping attackers break your app faster too.
MFA. Obfuscation. API security. Encryption. These are the controls most teams treat as standard practice, and they're the same ones this research found being bypassed across the board.
This talk breaks down what these attack techniques target, why each app security assumption fails, and how AI is speeding up the attacker's side of the equation.
You'll leave with a clear picture of how malicious actors are using the mobile device and AI to bypass the defenses you've already built in, and which of your standard controls need to be rethought rather than just checked off.