OWASP checked its LLM Top 10 against real incidents
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Every year OWASP's LLM Top 10 has been built the same way: ask hundreds of practitioners what scares them, rank by the vote. For the 2026 release, published August 4, 2026, they did something new. They pulled 7,714 real incidents from public vulnerability databases and an AI-harm database, classified 6,639 of them, and checked whether what practitioners fear actually matches what goes wrong in production. It mostly did. Where it didn't is the interesting part.
