{
  "id": 3744557,
  "title": "Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T13:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/27/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "SonarSource Sàrl, an AI code verification and governance company, has introduced SonarQube Hunter Agent to identify security flaws that traditional pattern-based scanning cannot detect. This new AI agent targets vulnerabilities where the code performs exactly as intended, such as unauthorized access to customer records, skipped checkout steps, or sessions remaining active longer than they should. While security engineers and penetration testers can identify these issues by manually reviewing code, the process is costly, time-consuming, and quickly outdated. SonarQube Hunter Agent aims to bridge the gap between code release and exploitation, as the gap has grown due to AI-assisted development accelerating code deployment and logic flaws going unnoticed for extended periods. The agent examines an entire codebase to trace data and user identity flows, generating theories about implementation drift and searching for proof of potential issues. Once confirmed, these findings appear in the SonarQube issue list, integrated into the existing development workflow without blocking pull requests or slowing continuous integration pipelines. SonarQube Hunter Agent is currently available to SonarQube Cloud Enterprise customers, with a planned general release and support for SonarQube Server on the horizon.",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see. The vulnerabilities it targets are the ones where the code does exactly what it was written to do. A user opens another customer’s records. A checkout step gets […] The post Sonar launches Hunter…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}