ADYTA

In 2018 Adyta, an U.Porto spin-off company, found an issue in the Galaxy Apps Store. This discovery resulted in a recognition for the company, whose expertise is in cybersecurity and secure communications, under Samsung’s Mobile Security Rewards Program. In summary, Adyta discovered flaws in Samsung’s apps integrity check, which would allow a “smartphone with access to an unsecure network to be tricked into permanently using another apps market ,other than Samsung’s own, and where modified versions of ordinary apps, such as Facebook, could be featured, plagued with malicious software” as explained by the company’s CTO, Luis Maia.

The Korean tech giant, precisely to discover this type of vulnerabilities, created the MSRP. As soon as they discovered the vulnerability, Adyta immediately communicated it to Samsung since having “secure technological platforms” is in the company’s best interest, as expressed by their CTO.

This discovery was echoed at a national level and Samsung rewarded the company financially for their efforts. They have also rated Adyta’s participation in the program as “High” (second-highest possible). The startup had previously collaborated with Samsung in the analysis of their Knox Platform and, since then, they have been working with the tech company in functional and cryptographic analysis of their devices.