Zealot, a company building artificial intelligence infrastructure for cyber operations, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to help US and allied governments identify and address weaknesses in software and networks more efficiently.
In the last twelve months, Anthropic and OpenAI have published threat reports documenting attempts by adversarial state-aligned actors to use commercial AI models to accelerate and autonomously drive cyber kill chains, from reconnaissance and phishing to malware development and network lateral movement. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that AI‑enabled tools are allowing attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities instantly, eliminating the barrier to mount cyberattacks.
