New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds

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 […] The post New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds appeared first on Si