OTX Threat: AI-Native security platform

Between May and July 2026, security researchers deployed an unauthenticated Model Context Protocol (MCP) honeypot server to observe how threat actors exploit AI agent infrastructure. Of approximately 1,000 sources that reached the decoy, 596 spoke the protocol and 24 proceeded to actively exploit it. These operators executed 628 shell commands, 255 file reads, and 248 secrets-store lookups, with 1