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Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers

·Source: The Hacker News

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Executive Summary

In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows. The ecosystem around it fell short. Earlier this year, our team at OX Security, traced critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic's MCP

Analysis

In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows. The ecosystem around it fell short. Earlier this year, our team at OX Security, traced critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic's MCP
Source Attribution

Originally published by The Hacker News on Oct 6, 2026.

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