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Capital One open-sources VulnHunter, agentic AI tool that hunts code vulnerabilities
Capital One released VulnHunter as an open-source AI security tool. It uses agentic AI (autonomous reasoning loops) to scan source code for vulnerabilities by reasoning like an attacker would. Directly applicable to BFSI secure software development.
WHY IT MATTERS
BFSI engineering teams can now integrate adversarial AI into CI/CD pipelines without vendor lock-in. Reduces time to vulnerability discovery in trading, settlement, and payment systems before production deploy.
Source: Finextra · 2026-07-22