La IA que ataca antes de que lleguen los ‘hackers’

Horizon3, a cybersecurity firm founded by former U.S. special forces tech officials, has arrived in Spain with a platform that leverages artificial intelligence to simulate cyberattacks and detect vulnerabilities in businesses. The company's arrival in Spain coincides with the release of its funding round of $250 million, which values the company at over $2 billion, tripling its valuation from just over a year ago.

This comes as ciberseguridad moves into a new phase, with the Spanish Agency for Data Protection receiving its first notification of a data breach caused by an AI-driven attack this month, and IBM estimating a 56% growth in AI-powered attacks in 2025.

Horizon3, specializing in autonomous offensive security with AI, aims to help companies discover their weak points before attackers do. The company's CEO, Snehal Antani, emphasizes the need for companies to "attack themselves before the attacker does," highlighting the asymmetry between human defenders and machine-driven attackers.

With over 330,000 intrusion tests across more than 7,000 clients, Horizon3's NodeZero platform autonomously attacks a company's real environment to reveal how an intruder could exploit weak credentials and configuration errors to compromise critical systems. The platform deploys virtual lures in attack paths, proving effective against AI agents who fall for traps more easily than humans.