Your agent now accepts payments. That is your new attack surface
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The x402 pattern (HTTP 402, pay and retry) is finally letting AI agents pay for APIs without accounts, keys, or human-in-the-loop. That is a good thing for adoption, and a bad thing for everyone who wrote the receiving side. I audit LLM systems for a living, and the payment layer is where I now fin…
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- 2026-09-17 20:48 · DEV Community — AI
Your agent now accepts payments. That is your new attack surface