Moyun Technology Secures New Strategic Investment from State Capital, Pioneering a New Generation of Offense-Driven Defense Security Services | BlueRun Ventures

Recently, Vackbot announced a new strategic investment round led by Goldstone Investment, the private equity arm of CITIC Securities. The proceeds will be used primarily to ramp up R&D, strengthen its intelligent automated offense-defense product matrix, and provide comprehensive information security services to clients — pioneering a new generation of "offense-driven defense" security service models. BlueRun Ventures previously led Vackbot's Series A round and has made multiple follow-on investments in subsequent rounds.

Founded in 2017, Vackbot is a globally leading AI-powered offensive and defensive cybersecurity service provider that validates clients' security postures through proactive attack simulation — using offense to strengthen defense. It is also the only domestic vendor with full-chain automated security verification spanning external networks to defense systems, defense systems to internal networks, internal networks to operating systems, operating systems to files, and files to functions. The company currently operates R&D centers and branch offices in ten locations including Beijing, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.

Vackbot has received numerous honors and accreditations: 2022 Red Herring Global 100; dual-category benchmark enterprise in BAS and SCA in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Security in China, 2022; technical support unit of the China National Vulnerability Database (CNNVD); IDC Innovator in AI Security Solutions; Deloitte Beijing Rising Star; and GEI China Potential Unicorn. With significant first-mover technical advantages and exceptional R&D capabilities, the company operates four AI offensive-defensive security labs and has received multiple letters of appreciation from Oracle, Google, and VMware. It has independently developed several well-known domestic network offense-defense products and solutions. Vackbot is on track to become a global leader in intelligent offensive-defensive cybersecurity.

Vackbot founder Bing Liu stated: "Vackbot uses AI algorithms for security validation, simulating hacker behavior to strengthen defense through offense. This approach can effectively reduce external vulnerability reports by over 70%. Drawing on tens of thousands of 'hacker playbooks' that exceed industry standards, combined with AI-generated attack kill chains, we comprehensively validate the effectiveness of clients' security systems from a hacker's perspective. At the same time, we provide 7×24 continuous security validation services, allowing security experts to focus on solving the toughest challenges."

In recent years, the global cybersecurity environment has grown increasingly complex, with frequent cyber conflicts posing major challenges to national cybersecurity. China's cybersecurity industry is experiencing rapid growth with enormous market potential. Vackbot has built an advanced technology and product system combining AI with offense-defense capabilities, pioneering China's first fully autonomous and controllable virtual hacker robot that disrupts traditional security protection models. It is the first intelligent offense-defense product to integrate artificial intelligence algorithms with network offense-defense technology, with internationally leading technology. Vackbot has solved numerous technical challenges in network offense-defense, filling a long-standing gap in China's intelligent cybersecurity offense-defense sector and driving innovation and upgrading in the country's information security industry.

Vackbot has developed multiple disruptive intelligent network offense-defense products including the Vackbot Intelligent Automated Penetration Testing Platform and the VackBAS Intelligent Automated Attack Simulation Platform, deployed through a "product + SaaS subscription" business model. To date, it has served over 200 large enterprise clients across finance, telecommunications, energy, government, and internet sectors, including critical national security clients such as the People's Bank of China, China UnionPay, State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid, PetroChina, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom Group, and provincial public security bureaus. Industry benchmark clients have renewed and expanded their contracts year after year, with revenue CAGR approaching 90% over the past four years, demonstrating strong organic growth and significant market leadership.

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