# EU Funding for Mobile App Traffic Interception

DevFeed: [EU Funding for Mobile App Traffic Interception](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/eu-funding-for-mobile-app-traffic-interception-19061.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://httptoolkit.com/blog/frida-mobile-interception-funding/>)

Author: HTTP Toolkit; Tim Perry

Published: 2023-02-27T12:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [HTTP Toolkit](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/http-toolkit.md>)

Topics: [interception](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interception.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Security & Privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

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## AI overview

HTTP Toolkit announces EU-backed funding to improve HTTPS traffic interception for mobile apps on iOS and Android. The project will use Frida integrations and hooks to support app-specific interception, automatic certificate unpinning, and simpler setup.

## Source excerpt

HTTP Toolkit has been selected to receive another round of open-source funding from the EU! This aims to improve interception of HTTPS traffic from mobile apps, making it easier for both security/privacy researchers and normal technical users to inspect & manipulate the data that any app they use sends & receives. This funding will directly support work to improve the precision & usability of mobile app interception, on both iOS and Android. In a couple of clicks, you'll be able to target any app installed on a connected device (on either platform) and inspect all its traffic. That means no background noise from full system interception, automatic certificate unpinning, and no fiddly manual setup required. HTTP Toolkit can already automatically intercept Android devices, but only globally for the whole device (using Android's VPN APIs), with system certificates injected but without certificate unpinning, and with no automatic setup support for iOS at all. All those caveats are going away (of course, I'm intending the existing device-wide interception to remain a fully supported option indefinitely too). This is going be powered by a set of new integrations & hooks for Frida, a popular open-source instrumentation toolkit. Many advanced HTTP Toolkit users are already using Frida independently (see the Frida certificate unpinning guide for more info) but doing so often requires quite a bit of setup and specialist knowledge. This project is going to take that away, making network interception of mobile apps easily accessible to anybody who knows what "HTTP" is. All this is being funded by the fantastic NLNet Foundation as part of NGI Zero Entrust, a program funding open-source EU projects that support transparency around data use & privacy in modern technology. This is part of the EU's Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, aiming to directly fund researchers & open-source developers to encourage the future engineering of the Internet towards European values: "openn