Bugcrowd Acquires Mayhem Security to Join AI Offensive Testing With Crowdsourced Hackers
The deal brings Mayhem’s autonomous vulnerability discovery into Bugcrowd’s crowdsourced platform.
Overview
- Bugcrowd announced the purchase of AI-driven offensive-security firm Mayhem Security, with financial terms undisclosed.
- All 11 Mayhem employees have joined Bugcrowd, and co-founder David Brumley becomes chief AI and science officer.
- Both companies plan to integrate Mayhem’s automation with Bugcrowd’s human testing to deliver continuous, lower-noise vulnerability discovery and validation across the software lifecycle.
- Mayhem’s technology targets API and code security, dynamic SBOM profiling, and reinforcement-learning agents for autonomous software testing.
- Founded as ForAllSecure, Mayhem won the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge and reportedly raised at least $36 million, including a $21 million Series B in 2022.