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Action Items for Agent Platform Security

· 18 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

Since January 2026, OpenClaw has attracted significant attention. Its GitHub star count has surpassed Visual Studio Code, and many forks have appeared, including lightweight versions and reimplementations in other languages. AI agents like OpenClaw that run in the background are being explored for various use cases such as task automation and coding assistance. To keep them running at all times, one click deployment services like exe.new/openclaw and railway.com/deploy/openclaw are now available.

AI Security Challenges in 2026

· 23 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

The year 2025 witnessed a continuous cycle of emerging and evolving AI/LLM technologies. Across the industry, various security measures for AI have been advancing. In 2026, AI adoption is expected to expand further, bringing new technologies and demanding corresponding security measures. This article reviews the major topics from 2025, breaks down the anticipated industry-wide challenges in AI Security for 2026 into concrete action items, and summarizes security measures for safely using and providing AI.

Weaponize the MCP - OAuth Phishing and Mitigations

· 8 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

MCP, an extension layer for AI and LLM systems, now underpins many AI agents. At the same time, multiple attack vectors have been identified that build on this new AI and LLM context. The best known is MCP tool poisoning, where an agent is tricked into running harmful actions. This was discovered because of the combination of nondeterministic LLM behavior and the new concept of shared context.

While new attack methods emerge, long standing attack vectors are also being exposed by unsafe parts of the MCP specification.

MCP Authentication and Authorization: Current State and Future

· 13 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

As of July 2025, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has evolved through three major versions (2024-11-05, 2025-03-26, and 2025-06-18). Today, MCP has become an integral part of our daily development workflow, with developers launching MCP servers via npx commands, uv commands, or Docker containers from MCP clients like Cursor, Claude Code, and VS Code, while also connecting to remote MCP servers.

SECCON Beginners CTF 2023 Reversing 作問者writeup

· 14 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

はじめに

SECCON Beginners CTF 2023のReversingのBeginner~Mediumまでの問題の作問者writeupです。Hard問題HeavenについてはArataさんから公開されると思うのでもう少々お待ち下さい。

Reversing分野は初心者の方にとっては難しい分野だと思います。ですので本CTFではReversingの基本的な解析手法である

My Internship experience in Mercari

· 8 min read
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Hiroki Akamatsu

I had an internship at Mercari's security team for a month and a half from August 16th to September 30th.

Mercari provides re-use market and mobile payment service for consumers, in Japan and the United States. Mercari is famous for the company does NOT require japanese skills. (If you want to know the company for English speakers in Japan, browse https://japan-dev.com/jobs and set JAPANESE LEVEL : Not Required, etc.)