Appdome Launches Threat-Memory™: AI-Powered Mobile App Fraud & ATO Protection

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Appdome Launches Threat-Memory: A New Era of Mobile Threat Intelligence

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 11, 2026 – Appdome, a leading provider of mobile app protection, today announced the launch of Threat-Memory™, a stateful and agentic threat intelligence engine for mobile applications. This new technology builds upon Appdome’s existing Threat-Events™ framework, offering a more robust and proactive defense against fraud and account takeover (ATO) attacks.

The Evolution of Mobile Threat Defense

Traditional mobile app security solutions are often described as stateless, providing only episodic defense against a limited range of attack vectors. These tools typically lack the ability to retain threat data locally or maintain a consistent threat state across sessions, installations, or applications. This limitation hinders their ability to detect repeat attacks, multi-step attack patterns, and evolving threats.

Introducing Threat-Memory

Threat-Memory addresses these shortcomings by creating a durable, intelligent threat state within each mobile app. It aggregates source threat data occurring on the device and enriches it with Agentic Severity Scoring™, utilizing AI models to continuously rank threats in real-time. This AI-informed threat state is securely accessible from within the Appdome-enabled app and can be attributed to the mobile device, application, instance, installation, session, or user account.

Key Capabilities of Threat-Memory

  • True Threat-State Retrieval: Access threat intelligence at any point in the application lifecycle.
  • Agentic Severity Scoring: Benefit from AI-powered threat ranking updated via Appdome’s backend.
  • Multi-Step Attack Detection: Identify complex attacks through on-device threat histories and pattern recognition.
  • Risk Evaluation: Assess mobile risk during critical processes like onboarding, authentication, and transactions.
  • Dynamic Defense Updates: Securely update certificates, exclusions, and defense controls over the air.
  • Threat History Analysis: Analyze threat histories by device, installation, release, or user identity.
  • Future API Access: Access Appdome’s upcoming digital reputation and risk APIs.

How Threat-Memory Works

Threat-Memory functions as a “digital brain” for mobile fraud and attack prevention. It aggregates threat intelligence locally, synchronizes threat histories with Appdome’s backend, and receives secure configuration and intelligence updates from the Appdome platform. The system leverages Appdome’s 400+ behavioral, environmental, and identity-based detections to deliver verified threat and risk profiles across a wide range of attack types, including fraud, deepfakes, ATOs, geo-spoofing, malware, and advanced manipulation techniques.

Benefits for Mobile Brands

According to Appdome, Threat-Memory enables mobile brands to eliminate guesswork in defeating mobile security and fraud risks. By combining a local threat repository with platform-validated threat history and risk intelligence, the technology provides a more informed and flexible defense posture.

“Threat Memory allows us to provide an interactive, flexible and informed defense posture in each application,” said Avi Yehuda, Co-Creator & CTO at Appdome. “Now, Appdome can not only tell you ‘when’ and ‘what’ attack happened, but how many times it happened, if it was different each time and whether it occurred with other attack patterns, and the severity of that stand-alone or combined attack sequence.”

High Performance and Discreet Operation

Threat-Memory is designed for high performance in consumer-grade mobile applications. It operates discreetly in the background, collecting over 400 mobile application, fraud, social engineering, environmental, network, and device threat signals locally and sending each signal to Appdome’s backend for verification. Apps can then retrieve accumulated threat intelligence and severity scoring without external API calls, minimizing delays and preserving user experience.

Industry Perspective

Eric Newcomer, principal analyst at Intellyx, stated, “Threat-Memory improves critical on-device protection capabilities. A device-based threat history enables local defense against repeated attacks and multi-step attacks. Together with AI, local history data creates actionable intelligence to stop fraud, prevent ATOs, and defeat social engineering.”

About Appdome

Appdome’s mission is to protect every mobile app and empower defenders with data and Agentic solutions. The company’s Agentic Defense Platform provides defensive capabilities across the mobile business, from DevSecOps to mobile applications, networks, APIs, and identity. Appdome utilizes five purpose-built Agents to deliver over 400 mobile app security, anti-fraud, bot defense, anti-malware, geo compliance, social engineering, deepfake, and other defenses on demand. With Appdome’s ThreatScope™ Mobile XTM, brands can analyze risk, threat trends, investigate attacks and manage their Mobile Risk Index™, preempting attacks in real-time. Appdome holds several patents including U.S. Patents 9,934,017 B2, 10,310,870 B2, 10,606,582 B2, 11,243,748 B2 and 11,294,663 B2, with additional patents pending.

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