Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews it
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ventureBeat
August 27, 2026 · 05:30
Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A plain scan of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness runs all 11 stages and edits source files in the target repo unless the operator caps it at detection.The announcement Thursday pairs the release with an expansion of the Visa Consulting & Analytics advisory practice. Visa is shipping that default 18 days after Tenet Security demonstrated GhostJacking on the DEF CON 34 main stage, an attack chain in which an agent read an attacker's payload out of a log file and rewrote DNS with a valid credential. Two days earlier, Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam and project co-lead fo…
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