The ReadJune 25, 2026via SiliconAngle
New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds
Why it matters
As MCP becomes the de facto standard for AI agent tooling, security researchers are racing ahead of deployment. This finding matters because it flags a critical window where developers may adopt the spec before hardening practices catch up—a familiar pattern in infrastructure adoption.
Key signals
- MCP 2026-07-28 specification (major architectural revision)
- Akamai Technologies published security analysis
- Protocol removes longstanding security risks
- New attack surfaces introduced in same release
- Anthropic created original MCP standard
The hook
Anthropic's MCP 2.0 fixes protocol vulnerabilities. But Akamai just found the new attack surface that matters.
A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis examines the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, the biggest architectural change to the standard since Anthropic PBC created […]