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

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Over the last year, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default way to connect an AI model to the real world. You install an MCP server, and suddenly your assistant can read your files, query your database, call your internal APIs, and act on your behalf. It is genuinely useful. It is a…

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  1. 2026-10-08 18:05 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP Servers Are a New Attack Surface, and Most Teams Are Not Looking

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