Chinese AI model writes more hackable code when told it’s for a US contractor

A Hirundo study found Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder produced more exploitable apps for US defense contractor prompts than for Chinese ones Ask Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder to build a login system and you’ll get working code. Tell it the code is for a US defense contractor, and you are more likely to get a login system with a back door left open. That is the central finding of a report released on October 21, 2026, by cybersecurity firm Hirundo. It found the same model produces measurably weaker security depending on who it thinks the customer is. Hirundo tested the model across more than 1,840 web services. These were the unglamorous but critical parts of software: user sign-up, login, and the storage of secrets like passwords and keys.

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