Use Case: Securing the LATAM Crypto Unicorn’s Mobile Application

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LatAm-based Crypto Unicorn Secures its Mobile App - Case Study

1. Company Profile & Business Overview

The company has evolved from a simple exchange into a critical financial infrastructure for the region.

  • User Base: ~10 million active clients across Multiple countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia) (Q1 2026 Data).
  • Transaction Volume: Processed over $70 billion USD in stablecoin payments in 2025 alone.
  • Market Dominance: Handles about 9% of all remittances between the US and Mexico.
  • Revenue Mix:
    • 60% from trading fees (Maker-Taker).
    • 25% corporate services and remittances (Customer’s Business).
    • 15% secondary products (Customer’s, lending, and yields).

2. Mobile Security Challenges Facing Crypto Exchanges

Given the company’s liquidity and transactional volume, AI-based attacks in 2026 are focusing on three high-impact areas:

  1. eKYC Evasion via Deepfakes: Using synthetic identities to open “mule” accounts and launder money from ransomware (which grew by 78% in LATAM in 2025).
  2. Injection Attacks: Utilizing AI for API fuzzing on the high-speed trading platform, seeking to exploit logic vulnerabilities in milliseconds.
  3. Remittance Fraud via Overlays: Malware that detects remittance transfers and superimposes a fake interface to change the destination wallet address.

3. Threats Targeting Cryptocurrency Apps

For a Financial customer, a mobile security failure is not just technical; it is a threat to its valuation and regulatory licenses.

A. Fraud Avoidance

If only 0.01% of Customer’s stablecoin transactions were intercepted by cloned apps or injection attacks:

  • Annual Volume: $82,000M USD.
  • Single Loss Expectancy (SLE): $8.2 million USD annually in funds stolen directly from users.
  • Metric: A RASP system (like DoveRunner) would reduce this attack success rate by 95%, saving approximately $7.8M USD per year.

B. Regulatory Compliance

Customers operate under the Fintech Law (Mexico) and GFSC licenses (Gibraltar).

  • Risk: A massive data breach under LGPD (Brazil) can carry fines of up to 2% of global turnover.
  • Impact: For a company with the customer’s  volume, fines could exceed $10M–$20M USD, excluding the cost of potential operational license revocation.

C. Churn Reduction through Trust

In the crypto sector, security is the primary driver of retention.

  • Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): Estimated at $25–$40 USD in LATAM.
  • Scenario: A security incident causing an additional 5% churn in the user base (500k users) would represent a lost acquisition value of $15 million USD.

4. How DoveRunner Protected the Customer

DoveRunner FeatureSpecific Application for customerBusiness Outcome
Anti-Debugging & Anti-DecompilationPrevents attackers from using AI to reverse-engineer how customers sign transactions on the device.Protects Intellectual Property and proprietary trading algorithms.
Binary IntegrityDetects modified versions (clones) of the customer app distributed on unofficial sites.Reduces identity theft fraud by 90%.
Screen Capture/Record DetectionBlocks the capture of seed phrases or 2FA codes by banking Trojans.Increases user confidence and reduces support costs for account takeovers.
Anti-Rooting/JailbreakPrevents the app from running on compromised devices where private keys are vulnerable.Guarantees a Secure Execution Environment (TEE) for digital assets.

5. Conclusion

For an entity like this, mobile cybersecurity has transitioned from a “cost center” to a “revenue enabler.” By implementing real-time protection (RASP), the company not only protects the $82 billion flowing through its rails but also secures its position as the most trusted financial infrastructure in Latin America against AI-automated crime.

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