Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report<\/a> tested more than 100 models across 80 coding tasks and found they introduced an OWASP Top 10 vulnerability in 45% of cases, with failure rates over 70% for Java specifically and between 38% and 45% for Python, C#, and JavaScript. The models were not producing broken code. They were producing code that ran, passed a casual read, and still shipped a security flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThat gap matters more in vibe coding than in traditional development because the workflow removes the step where a security-minded engineer would normally catch it. Nobody wrote the insecure line by hand and might have paused on it. The model wrote it, it compiled, and the person reviewing it was checking for functionality, not for the absence of a control they never asked for in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Veracode found LLMs failed to defend against cross-site scripting in 86% of relevant test cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hardcoded secrets and exposed API keys.<\/strong> A model asked to “connect to the API” will often write the key directly into the source file because that is the fastest path to a working demo, and a developer copying that pattern forward carries it into a real deployment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Over-permissioned access.<\/strong> To avoid a feature failing on a permissions error, models tend to generate “allow all” CORS policies or grant broad IAM roles rather than scoping access to what the feature actually needs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hallucinated dependencies.<\/strong> A USENIX Security 2025 study that generated 576,000 code samples across 16 widely used models found that 19.7% of recommended packages did not exist at all, a pattern researchers call <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org\/research\/csa-research-note-slopsquatting-ai-supply-chain-20260419\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slopsquatting<\/a>. The hallucinations were not random: 43% of the fake package names reappeared every time the same prompt was run, which means an attacker can pre-register the name a model is likely to suggest and wait.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Client-side security logic.<\/strong> Putting an admin check or a pricing rule in frontend code is the fastest way to make a demo work and the easiest way to let anyone bypass it, since client-side code is fully visible and editable by the user running it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No organizational guardrails.<\/strong> Vibe coders, including experienced developers working solo or off-hours, often build and deploy without the CI checks, code review, and security gates that would normally sit between a commit and production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deferring to the model’s own security judgment.<\/strong> When a model asserts that something is fine, or scolds a user for a security instinct it considers unnecessary, the confident tone reads as expertise. It is a plausibility engine stating an opinion, not a security review.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Developers_Trust_an_Agents_Security_Judgment_Over_Their_Own\"><\/span>Why Developers Trust an Agent’s Security Judgment Over Their Own<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deferring to an AI coding assistant’s security judgment is behavioral rather than technical, and it is the one vibe coding security risk a code scanner cannot catch. A model states security opinions in the same fluent, confident register it uses for everything else, whether or not the underlying judgment is sound. A developer who would never take unverified security advice from a stranger online will often take it from a coding assistant because the assistant sounds certain and the developer is tired, mid-task, or simply wants to keep moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the same mechanism behind a spoofed executive email that gets a wire transfer approved: an authoritative tone substituting for actual authority. <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/insider-threats-malicious-misguided\/\">Insider threats are rarely malicious<\/a>; far more often they come from someone who made a reasonable-sounding call in the moment and was wrong. A developer who overrides their own instinct to revoke a leaked key because an agent implied the instinct was excessive is behaving exactly like an employee who wires money because the email sounded like the CFO. The channel changed. The underlying vulnerability, deferring to a confident voice instead of verifying, did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programs built around <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/measuring-human-risk-in-security-program\/\">measuring human risk<\/a> treat this as a behavior to baseline and coach, not a personality flaw to blame. The fix is procedural: keep a human decision point on anything touching credentials or production data, regardless of how confidently a tool argues against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vibe_Coding_Risk_Looks_Different_for_Solo_Builders_and_Enterprise_Teams\"><\/span>Vibe Coding Risk Looks Different for Solo Builders and Enterprise Teams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A solo founder vibe coding a weekend prototype and a developer on an enterprise team vibe coding a feature inside a regulated product face the same seven risks with very different blast radii. The solo builder’s exposure is usually contained: a leaked key on a low-traffic side project, rotated once discovered, with limited downstream damage. The enterprise case is where the pattern actually costs money, because the vibe-coded feature inherits the surrounding system’s access: production databases, customer records, and whatever <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/culture-of-cybersecurity-in-organizations\/\">security culture<\/a> the rest of the engineering org has built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enterprise teams also lose a protection the solo builder never had in the first place: the assumption that CI checks, mandatory review, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/how-to-build-a-strong-security-culture\/\">strong security culture<\/a> would catch what an individual missed. Vibe coding happens fastest exactly where those guardrails are weakest, on personal laptops, in hackathon-style sprints, and inside tools the security team does not yet monitor. Treating vibe coding as a personal productivity habit rather than a workflow the organization needs visibility into is how a contained risk becomes an unmanaged one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Security_Teams_Should_Require_Before_Vibe-Coded_Code_Ships\"><\/span>What Security Teams Should Require Before Vibe-Coded Code Ships<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A blanket ban on AI coding assistants is both unenforceable and a poor use of a security team’s credibility. A short list of non-negotiable gates gets more real-world compliance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Secrets scanning is mandatory in the CI pipeline<\/strong>, not optional or reviewer-dependent, since <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/how-do-insider-threat-programs-defend-against-insider-threats\/\">insider threat programs<\/a> consistently find that relying on a human to catch a credential in review is the control that fails first.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Any AI-generated code touching authentication, payments, or personal data gets a named human reviewer<\/strong>, distinct from whoever prompted the model.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dependency verification runs automatically<\/strong>, checking suggested packages against the real registry before install, rather than trusting the model’s output.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vibe-coded prototypes get a defined path to either deletion or hardening<\/strong> before they reach production, so “it was just a demo” stops being how unreviewed code ends up handling real customer data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of this requires new headcount. It requires naming vibe coding explicitly in the <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/end-user-security-awareness-training\/\">security awareness training<\/a> and secure development policy that already exists, rather than treating AI-assisted development as outside the scope of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Vibe_Coding_Security_Checklist\"><\/span>A Vibe Coding Security Checklist<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use this before merging or deploying anything a model generated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scan for secrets before every commit.<\/strong> Run a pre-commit secrets scanner rather than relying on a human to notice a hardcoded key during review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Verify every dependency the model suggests<\/strong> against the actual package registry before installing it, given how often hallucinated names appear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Move authorization checks server-side<\/strong>, even in a prototype, since prototypes have a way of becoming production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scope permissions narrowly<\/strong> and reject “allow all” as a default, even when the model suggests it to make a feature work faster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Run a static analysis pass<\/strong> on AI-generated code specifically, not just on human-written code, since the two fail differently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Treat the model’s security claims as a starting hypothesis<\/strong>, not a verdict, and get a second human opinion before dismissing a security concern the model waved off.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rotate and revoke on suspicion, not on certainty.<\/strong> Waiting for proof of misuse before revoking a possibly-exposed key is the exact hesitation that turns a near miss into an incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Keep_API_Keys_Safe_When_Vibe_Coding\"><\/span>How to Keep API Keys Safe When Vibe Coding<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">API keys leak from vibe-coded projects for a mundane reason: the fastest way to test an integration is to paste the key directly into a prompt, a config file, or a terminal window, and the fastest path rarely survives contact with a .gitignore file that was never set up. <a href=\"https:\/\/gitguardian.com\/state-of-secrets-sprawl-report-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report<\/a> found 28,650,000 new hardcoded secrets added to public GitHub in 2025 alone, a 34% increase over the prior year, with AI-assisted commits leaking secrets at roughly twice the rate of hand-written ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bigger problem is what happens after a key leaks. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gitguardian.com\/how-to-reduce-time-to-revoke-for-exposed-credentials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitGuardian’s own analysis of time-to-revoke<\/a> found that 64% of secrets confirmed valid in 2022 were still valid four years later, meaning most organizations detect exposure faster than they act on it. A key sitting in a chat log or a committed file is not a theoretical risk waiting for an attacker to find it. Public GitHub is scanned continuously by both defenders and attackers, and the gap between exposure and revocation is where the damage happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Store keys in environment variables or a secrets manager, never in a file that gets committed, and never in a prompt sent to a hosted AI tool where retention policy is not something you control. If a key does end up somewhere it should not be, revoke it immediately and rotate it. The five minutes that takes is smaller than any argument, human or AI, for waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Building_the_Habit_Not_Just_the_Checklist\"><\/span>Building the Habit, Not Just the Checklist<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of the seven risks above require banning vibe coding to fix. They require treating AI-generated code the way a security team already treats code from a new, unvetted contractor: useful, fast, and unverified until proven otherwise. The technical controls (secret scanning, dependency verification, scoped permissions) catch most of it. The harder part is the habit of pausing when a model sounds certain about something a person was right to question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/threatcop-security-awareness-training\">Threatcop’s TLMS<\/a> can push a role-based microlearning module on this exact pattern, AI-agent overconfidence and credential hygiene, to development teams the same week a new risk like this surfaces, rather than waiting for an annual refresh to catch up with how the team actually works now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your organization is building out a broader AI risk posture, see how <a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/affects-of-ai-in-cybersecurity\/\">AI is affecting cybersecurity<\/a> more generally, including the agent-specific risks that sit alongside the coding-assistant risks covered here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_Asked_Questions\"><\/span>Frequently Asked Questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"sp-easy-accordion-block sp-eab-regular-accordion alignwide\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-wrapper sp-eab-vertical-accordion sp-eab-530dda4c66d8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion sp-eab-mode-vertical sp-eab-vertical-one sp-d-flex' data-accordion-settings=\"{"mode":"vertical","activeEvent":"click","defaultAccordionOpen":"first-item","selectedItemOpen":0,"openMultiItemAtaTime":false,"scrollToTopOnLoad":false,"scrollToTopOnClick":false,"accordionItemToUrl":false,"animationEffect":false,"applyAccessibility":true}\">\n \t \t\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-00566e53e190\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIs AI-generated code less secure than code a developer writes by hand?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not inherently less secure, but less secure by default. Veracode’s 2025 research found AI models introduce a security flaw in 45% of coding tasks when security requirements are not explicitly stated, because the model optimizes for a working feature rather than a defensible one.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-1ec6e64f398c\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is the biggest vibe coding security risk?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hardcoded secrets and missing input validation are the most common technical risks, but the least visible one is developers accepting a model’s security judgment without a second check, since that failure does not show up in a code scan.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-fa4b079a3bb2\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCan vibe coding be done securely?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, if security requirements are stated explicitly in every prompt, dependencies are verified against the real package registry, and a human reviews anything touching authentication, authorization, or credentials before it ships.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-5a91bcb2fb0f\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShould I trust an AI coding assistant’s security advice?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Treat it as a starting opinion, not a verdict. A model states security claims in the same confident tone it uses for everything else, so a second, human-verified opinion matters most exactly when the model sounds most certain.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-79c2e17e74c8\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is slopsquatting?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slopsquatting is when an attacker pre-registers a package name that AI coding models are known to hallucinate, so a developer who copies the model’s suggested install command pulls down malicious code instead of the package they intended.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tid =\"sp-eab-item-2a6f332b579b\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sp-eab-accordion-item eab-item-4c66d8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sp-eab-accordion-item-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='sp-eab-accordion-heading sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-heading-4c66d8'\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center eab-icon-position-end'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-start sp-d-flex sp-justify-left sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-title-subtitle-wrapper sp-d-flex'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-wrapper sp-d-flex sp-align-center'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-title-text'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy do developers ignore their own security instincts when an AI tool disagrees?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-accordion-header-end eab-icon-animated'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='sp-eab-expand-collapse-icon sp-d-block'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-expand-icon eab-icon-angle-down-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class='sp-eab-collapse-icon eab-icon-angle-up-solid'><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- accordion body -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content eab-content-4c66d8'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='sp-eab-accordion-body'>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A confident, fluent tone reads as expertise even when the underlying judgment is not sound, and overriding a correct instinct to avoid friction with a tool is the same behavioral pattern behind many <a 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