Your Agent Just Paid for Nothing: 6 Attacks on x402 Payments - Ishween Kaur, SoFi
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Why it matters
If your agents pay for APIs over x402A payment protocol built on HTTP's long-unused 402 status code, letting a server charge per request so software agents can pay without an account.Full definition →, these six attack classes show where payments can be tampered with or tricked. Each comes with the guard that blocked it, so you can test your own integration.
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x402 — A payment protocol built on HTTP's long-unused 402 status code, letting a server charge per request so software agents can pay without an account.