Vibe coding? Meet vibe security

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As AI evolves at breakneck speed, attackers are evolving right alongside it. Vibe coding, AI agents, and prompt-based attacks are opening enterprises up to new vulnerabilities daily. The pressure is on for cybersecurity tools to keep pace, and startups are seizing the moment. Few have grown as rapidly as Wiz, which Google is acquiring for $32 billion in its largest-ever purchase. On today's episode of Equity, Wiz co-founder and chief technologist Ami Luttwak joined Rebecca Bellan to discuss how AI is fundamentally reshaping cybersecurity threats, from supply chain attacks that leverage vibe coding to hackers targeting the AI agents that developers rely on daily. His message is clear: while AI tools help developers build faster, they're also creating more vulnerable code by default, and attackers are already exploiting these weaknesses at scale. Listen to the full episode to hear: Why recent attacks affecting thousands of companies show AI security threats are here now How vibe coding creates less secure applications and what developers can do about it Why even a five-person AI startup needs a CISO from day one to win enterprise customers How AI startups can access customer data without compromising security Where Luttwak sees the biggest opportunities for innovation across the cybersecurity landscape Equity will be back Friday, with our weekly news roundup. Talk then! Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a paid ad by Fidelity Private Shares.
0:03.2	A messy or missing cap table might not just slow you down.
0:05.8	It could cost you your next fundraising round.
0:19.9	Hello and welcome back to Equity TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.
0:24.3	I'm Rebecca Bilan, and this is the episode where we bring on industry experts to help us explore a trend in the tech world and dive deep.
0:31.0	As AI evolves at breakneck speeds, attackers are evolving right alongside it.
0:35.7	Vibe coding, AI agents, and prompt-based attacks are
0:38.2	opening up enterprises to new vulnerabilities daily. The pressure is on for cybersecurity tools to keep pace,
0:44.3	and startups are seizing the moment. Few have surged farther, though, than Wiz, which Google is
0:49.5	acquiring for $32 billion in its largest ever purchase. So today we're joined by Wiz's co-founder and
0:55.5	cheap technologist Ami Lutwok to talk about what he's seeing at the front lines of AI and security.
1:01.5	Ami, welcome to the show. Hi, very excited to be here. I'm so excited to have you here. I mean,
1:06.1	it seems like as AI develops even further and everyone's vibe coding and it just seems like the
1:13.1	cybersecurity risk is growing bigger by the second. Our regular listeners will definitely have
1:18.7	heard us talk about various breaches over the past few years, Microsoft hugging face,
1:24.9	saying it detected unauthorized access to its AI model hosting platform.
1:29.0	This January deep seek exposed internal databases containing chat histories and sensitive data.
1:34.3	This is so huge.
1:35.4	Like your space is just evolving every day.
1:37.7	It's very exciting in the space in general in technology, at this time, especially in cybersecurity,
1:43.8	I think one of the key things to understand about cybersecurity,
1:46.8	unlike usual areas, is that it's a mind game.
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