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7/2/2026

AgentGraph Update
Short summary
MCP servers face five concrete attack patterns: credential harvesting via env vars, prompt injection in tool descriptions, silent filesystem traversal, obfuscated post-install payloads, and DNS exfiltration. The article provides code samples explaining why static scanners miss these patterns and demonstrates detection using mcp-security-scan with CLI examples and GitHub Action integration. Includes AgentGraph trust badge for security validation.
- •Five MCP attack patterns: credential harvesting, prompt injection, filesystem traversal, post-install obfuscation, DNS exfil
- •Static scanners miss these; mcp-security-scan detects them with CLI and GitHub Actions integration
- •Code samples and AgentGraph trust badge for infrastructure security validation
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