# Code review used to be the only way to catch these bugs

> Source: <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/code-review-ai-vulnerability-discovery/>
> Published: 2026-08-05 11:30:19+00:00

An automated system called NOVA read the source code of 3,915 open-source projects over two months and came back with 14,090 vulnerabilities, each one confirmed through the system’s validation pipeline. Vulnerability researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 built the system and checked its output against the public record afterward. Only 85 findings matched anything already documented, and most of those were published two to eight weeks after NOVA had found them. The count is … [More ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/code-review-ai-vulnerability-discovery/)

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