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MCP Servers Are a New Attack Surface, and Most Teams Are Not Looking

Community description: Over the last year, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default way to connect an AI...

Dev.to | Oct 8, 2026 | Neeraj Ram

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Once the model acts on fetched content, untrusted data becomes a source of actions. That enables tool poisoning: a tool whose description quietly instructs the model. Review the tool definitions of any server you install, not only its README.

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