Hex Security Launches: AI That Hacks Before Attackers Do

Hex Security recently launched!

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"Autonomous AI agents that find vulnerabilities in your web apps, APIs, and infrastructure—continuously, not once a year."}

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Founded by Huzaifa Ahmad, Ahmad Khan & Prama Yudhistira

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In the past few weeks, their agents found critical vulnerabilities in dozens of YC companies (ones you’ve heard of): SQL injection exposing billions of records, demonstrated a PoC worm that could infect entire networks, gained access to hundreds of codebases, and more. Through this, they have prevented an estimated $3B+ in potential damages (based on exposed record counts and IBM's Cost of a Data Breach benchmarks).

🎥 Watch their launch video

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The problem: Companies lose $10T+ annually to preventable vulnerabilities, yet most pentest once a year because it's manual, expensive, and slow. By the time you get the PDF, your codebase has changed.

And that gap is widening. In September 2025, Anthropic caught Chinese state-sponsored hackers using AI to run 80-90% of an attack autonomously — thousands of requests per second, speeds no human team could match. The attackers have AI now, and defenders need it too.

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What they built: AI agents that run continuous penetration tests against your apps and infrastructure. They find vulnerabilities, chain exploits together, and deliver actionable findings with reproduction steps — at a fraction of the cost of traditional pentesting.

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Learn More

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