{"id":72347,"date":"2025-11-28T07:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=72347"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:12:31","slug":"bugcrowd-acquires-pioneer-of-ai-offensive-security-founded-by-some-of-worlds-most-elite-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2025\/11\/28\/bugcrowd-acquires-pioneer-of-ai-offensive-security-founded-by-some-of-worlds-most-elite-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugcrowd acquires pioneer of AI offensive security, founded by some of world\u2019s most elite hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bugcrowd,<\/a> a leader in crowdsourced cybersecurity, announced the acquisition of\u00a0Mayhem Security<\/a>, a pioneer in AI offensive security founded by some of the world\u2019s most elite hackers, to advance the next generation of humans-in-the-loop, AI-powered security testing.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

By combining the ingenuity of its global hacker community with Mayhem\u2019s cutting-edge AI platform, Bugcrowd aims to help organizations ship safer software faster, at lower cost, and with greater confidence, while shrinking their attack surface. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizations face increasingly complex attack surfaces, driven by rapid software delivery, expanding APIs, and opaque supply chains. Traditional security approaches often detect vulnerabilities only after deployment, leaving exploitable weaknesses in production and exposing businesses to escalating risks from adversaries who operate with increasing speed and sophistication. Addressing these challenges requires a new approach: one that combines the scalability and precision of AI with the contextual insight of human-led testing to deliver security that evolves as fast as the threats it defends against.<\/span><\/p>\n

The integration of Mayhem\u2019s AI-driven automation with Bugcrowd\u2019s crowdsourced testing redefines how vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated across the software development lifecycle. Customers will gain automated, proactive protection during development through virtually noise-free testing that continuously finds, prioritizes, and validates the remediation of vulnerabilities, seamlessly complemented by Bugcrowd\u2019s proven, human-driven adversarial testing of deployed software by trusted, highly skilled hackers. This marks an industry first, bringing both capabilities together in a unified platform that delivers continuous coverage from development to production. By combining Mayhem\u2019s AI offensive security with Bugcrowd\u2019s trusted crowdsourced expertise, organizations can continuously reduce their attack surface, eliminate risky code and dependencies, and keep pace with modern adversaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to welcome Mayhem Security to the Bugcrowd team,\u201d said Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd. \u201cThis acquisition represents another milestone in our mission to transform the way organizations approach cybersecurity by combining the collective ingenuity of our global hacker community with the machine speed and precision of AI offensive security testing. By integrating Mayhem\u2019s capabilities into the Bugcrowd Platform, we\u2019re building the industry\u2019s first truly adaptive security platform, enabling customers to anticipate, test, and defend at unprecedented scale. This is a strategic step toward realizing our vision of a self-learning platform that unites human creativity with machine intelligence, while shrinking customers’ attack surface.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayhem Security was founded by\u00a0Dr. David Brumley<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Thanassis Avgerinos<\/a>, two world-renowned cybersecurity innovators who each hold a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. United by a vision to transform how organizations find and fix vulnerabilities, they\u2019ve built a platform that blends deep academic research with real-world impact. The company made history in 2016 by\u00a0winning the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge<\/a>\u00a0with an autonomous system capable of discovering, diagnosing, and repairing software flaws in real time, later earning the first-ever DEF CON Black Badge awarded to a non-human competitor. Today, Mayhem\u2019s AI offensive platform delivers continuous security testing across APIs, code, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and provides Reinforcement Learning environments for builders of foundational LLM models.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayhem Security currently delivers:<\/span><\/p>\n