One of the Best Hackers in the Country is an AI Bot
Xbow, the startup behind a highly ranked hacking security tool, has raised $75 million
Xbow founder Oege de Moor
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A hacker named Xbow has topped a prestigious security industry US leaderboard that tracks who has found and reported the most vulnerabilities in software from large companies. Xbow isn’t a person — it’s an artificial intelligence tool developed by a company of the same name.
This is the first time a company’s AI product has topped HackerOne’s US leaderboard by reputation, which measures how many vulnerabilities have been found and the importance of each one, according to HackerOne co-founder Michiel Prins. Now, the year-old startup has raised $75 million in a new funding round led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and NFDG. It declined to share its valuation.