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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.