Arkose Labs offers comprehensive mobile SDKs for both Android and iOS, delivering enterprise-grade fraud prevention across major platforms. Now, we’re enhancing our Android SDK with Mobile Integrity Check—powered by Google Play Integrity API—to detect compromised devices, modified applications, and emulator-based attacks that evade traditional detection methods. This critical advancement works alongside our bot manager to provide defense-in-depth against sophisticated fraud operations targeting mobile applications.

Why Mobile Integrity Matters

In the evolving landscape of mobile security, ensuring applications operate within secure and trusted environments is paramount. These new capabilities for our Android SDK are particularly important for safeguarding critical business services from cheating, unauthorized access, modification, and tampering. The checks validate three crucial aspects:

Device Integrity confirms the app runs on an uncompromised device, reasonably free from rooting or unauthorized modifications that could expose security risks. 

Application Authenticity verifies the app is genuine, preventing the SDK from running within cloned or tampered applications. 

Legitimate Download Source ensures the application was downloaded from Google Play, preventing distribution through unauthorized or malicious channels.

Beyond Basic Integrity: The Arkose Labs Advantage

While integrity checks attest that a device and app installation are genuine, they lack detection capabilities for malicious actors using legitimate devices to create fake accounts, post fraudulent reviews, or distribute spam. This is where Arkose Lab’s intelligent threat detection becomes invaluable.

By combining integrity checks with our existing detection and mitigation capabilities, we provide comprehensive protection against the full spectrum of mobile threats. Our platform excels at identifying fraudsters with malicious intent, even when they’re using genuine devices. This is particularly crucial for combating fraud farms—operations that utilize cheap, authentic devices to bypass basic security measures at scale.

Countering Sophisticated Fraud Operations

Fraud farms remain one of the most persistent challenges in mobile security. These operations often deploy emulators or compromised devices to create and manage large volumes of fake accounts, leading to spam, fake reviews, and unauthorized service access. Our Android SDK’s enhanced capabilities address this through seamless integration with Google Play Integrity API, providing verdicts on device integrity and app legitimacy that inform Arkose Lab’s broader threat detection models.

The implementation is straightforward. With minimal code changes, clients can enable integrity checks in existing Android applications while our SDK handles the complex interactions behind the scenes.

A Complementary Security Approach

Having Arkose Bot Manager work alongside integrity checks greatly enhances mobile application security. This complementary approach allows both Arkose Labs and our customers to respond proactively to threats and mitigate potential attacks effectively. The integrity verdicts are processed server-side and integrated into Arkose Bot Manager’s core workflow as additional signals, ensuring they cannot be tampered with by malicious actors.

The Arkose Labs mobile SDKs for Android and iOS deliver simplified integration, ongoing security enhancements, platform compliance, and performance optimization that protects without compromising user experience. With App Attestation and Device Integrity checks now available for Android via our Mobile Integrity Check feature, you’re equipped with best-in-class defense against today’s most sophisticated mobile threats.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Arkose Labs authored by Min Lin. Read the original post at: https://www.arkoselabs.com/blog/arkose-labs-android-sdk-enhanced-protection-with-mobile-integrity-check/