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620,000 Downloads Last Week for MCP Servers That Will Never Be Patched

On November 2, Glow Security published research it calls MCPhantom : AI coding agents keep installing MCP servers that were archived more than a year ago. In 98% of the sessions where an agent set up one of these deprecated servers, the user had not asked for it by name. The agent filled in the pac…

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  1. 2026-11-03 16:02 · DEV Community — AI
    620,000 Downloads Last Week for MCP Servers That Will Never Be Patched

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