{"id":941742,"date":"2025-06-27T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941742"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:46:24","slug":"ai-tool-xbow-is-one-of-americas-best-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/ai-tool-xbow-is-one-of-americas-best-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tool Xbow is one of America&#8217;s best hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t a person \u2014 it\u2019s an artificial intelligence tool developed by a company of the same name. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a company\u2019s AI product has topped HackerOne\u2019s US leaderboard by reputation, which measures how many vulnerabilities have been found and the importance of each one, according to HackerOne cofounder 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t a person \u2014 it\u2019s an artificial intelligence tool developed by a company of the same name. This is the first time a company\u2019s AI product has topped HackerOne\u2019s US leaderboard by reputation, which measures how many vulnerabilities have been found and the importance of each one, according to HackerOne cofounder Michiel Prins. Now, the year-old startup has raised $75 million in a new funding round led by Altimeter Capital, with participation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}