London-based offensive security startup CodeWall launched with $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Osney Capital for autonomous AI agents that attack enterprises the way an outside hacker would. In an earlier engagement, an agent with no credentials gained read and write access to the production database behind McKinsey's Lilli AI platform within two hours. CodeWall pitches the ongoing testing as a replacement for the once- or twice-a-year penetration test.
Why it matters: A founder profile that traces how a hedge fund's high-frequency trading problem shaped Hilt's kernel-level anomaly detection, useful for readers weighing security tooling for AI agents.
Why it matters: Modelence's diagnosis that the fragile part of vibe coding is the glue between services, not any single service, gives readers a concrete way to judge infrastructure bets in this crowded space.
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