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Cobalt

Offensive security platform and testing services

cobalt.io

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2013
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 200–600
Industry: Business Support Services

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Latest news about Cobalt

In short: Cobalt expanded its offensive security platform with autonomous pentesting and AI-driven features while reporting high risks in AI apps.

Company announcements

July 23 Cobalt

Cobalt launches Autonomous Pentest for fast pentesting

It combines AI speed with human oversight, delivering findings in 24 hours and maintaining accountability.

July 16 Cobalt

Cobalt highlights security risk in agentic AI

The implicit trust between instruction and execution in MCP servers creates injection paths for attackers.

June 15 Cobalt

Cobalt CTO comments on US crackdown on Anthropic AI models

The US government banned foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's latest models, citing national security. Gunter Ollmann noted AI compresses attack timelines.

June 11 Cobalt

Cobalt created a Security Program Manager role for AI challenges

The role embeds senior practitioners in customer accounts to manage testing programs, improve remediation governance, and build executive reporting frameworks, addressing bottlenecks from AI-augmented assessments.

Media coverage

July 23 Yahoo Finance

Cobalt Launches Autonomous Pentest to Bolster Continuous Security Testing Across the Full Application Portfolio

Cobalt™, the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in continuous offensive security testing grounded in human expertise, today announced Cobalt Autonomous...

May 13 Techmeme

Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay

Monica Hunter-Hart / Forbes: Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by...

April 16 World Energy News

Congo creates strategic reserve of cobalt to influence supply and price, regulator says

The national minerals regulator announced on Thursday that the Democratic Republic of Congo had?established a strategy reserve...

April 13 Miningmx

KoBold launches major Congo lithium exploration drive

US mining technology company KoBold Metals has begun what it describes as the largest lithium exploration campaign ever undertaken in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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