There are at least two things that could be contributing to this perception: 1. Python is (usually) an interpreted language, and it's probably true to say that

There are at least two things that could be contributing to this perception: 1. Python is (usually) an interpreted language, and it's probably true to say that interpreted languages tend to have a lower attack surface (at the cost of lowered performance). 2. While Python is very popular in certain domains (numerical computing, ML etc), there are few low-level systems that are written in Python.