When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where it picked one out of an archived repository that will never be patched again. Source: Glow Security Reviewing real AI coding session transcripts, Glow Labs found deprecated MCP servers landing on developer machines, a pattern it calls MCPhantom. In 98% of those sessions, the agent appears … More →

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