ArmourZero co-founder and CEO Tho Kit Hoong (L) with Tunku Syed Razman Ibni Tunku Syed Idrus Al Qadri
Malaysia-based cybersecurity firm ArmourZero has secured an undisclosed strategic angel investment from YTM Colonel (H) Tunku Syed Razman Ibni Tunku Syed Idrus Al Qadri.
Razman, who chairs the Malaysia-Saudi Arabia Business Council, is known for his experience in cross-border partnerships across Asia and the Middle East. The company stated that the investment will enable it to expand into markets in ASEAN, North Asia, and West Asia, where cybersecurity risks are escalating alongside the rapid adoption of AI.
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Razman’s involvement will support its plans to grow in markets prioritising digital resilience.
AI-generated code is speeding development and introducing new risks
AI is now embedded in mainstream software development. According to ArmourZero, 84 per cent of developers use AI-generated code, nicknamed “vibe coding”, to speed up development cycles. But this acceleration is also creating new security challenges.
A 2025 study by Schreiber & Tippe, which examined 7,703 AI-generated code files, identified more than 4,200 distinct vulnerabilities across 77 types of weaknesses. Python-based code showed the highest exposure, with vulnerability rates reaching 18 per cent.
These findings suggest that as AI tools generate more production code, the risk of exploitable flaws being introduced into software systems increases significantly.
AI also reduces breach costs — when used defensively
At the same time, AI offers meaningful defensive benefits. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that organisations using AI and automation in their security operations reduced average breach costs by up to US$1.9 million compared to companies that did not.
This widening gap between AI-driven vulnerabilities and AI-enabled defence explains why the cybersecurity industry is under pressure to modernise its tooling.
Co-founded in 2022 by cybersecurity expert Tho Kit Hoong and tech innovator Chong Wai Lun, ArmourZero positions itself as an automated vulnerability management (AVM) platform.
The platform provides real-time vulnerability discovery across applications, web domains, and cloud infrastructures. It provides AI to accelerate remediation through intelligent suggestions and advanced false-positive detection. This enables the software developer teams, risk teams, and cybersecurity teams to collaborate closely, focus on genuine threats and resolve them more efficiently.
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ArmourZero plans to launch an API security solution this month. The firm says the tool will automatically detect and remediate API-related vulnerabilities — a category increasingly viewed as one of the most common and costly sources of breach incidents.
In February this year, Gobi Partners announced an undisclosed strategic investment in ArmourZero, a cloud-based cybersecurity platform based in Malaysia.
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