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Anthropic MCP Design Vulnerability Enables RCE, Threatening AI Supply Chain

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical "by design" weakness in the Model Context Protocol's (MCP) architecture ...

200,000 MCP servers expose a command execution flaw that Anthropic calls a feature

OX Security confirmed arbitrary command execution on six live platforms and estimates 200,000 MCP servers are exposed. Here's ...
CSO Online

RCE by design: MCP architectural choice haunts AI agent ecosystem

Unsafe defaults in MCP configurations open servers to possible remote code execution, according to security researchers who have found exploitable instances in many commercial services and open-source ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On: Building an MCP Server with VS Code AI Toolkit's New Tool Catalog

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Publishes Model Context Protocol Lab for Copilot Studio

A new GitHub repo serves as a lab for creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and using it in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The MCP, originated by AI leader Anthropic and taken open source, is a ...