closedclosed 14 Apr 2026Supply chain3 Confirmed exploitationAI
Postmark MCP Server Package Hijacked for Email Exfiltration
Postmark MCP
Threat actors performed a malicious rugpull update on a popular npm package for an MCP server. The compromised server successfully exfiltrated user emails through AI agents.
- fix status
- Fix status unknown
- first report
- 31 Mar 2026
- last update
- 31 Mar 2026
Timeline · 2
Sources · 2
News and write-ups
- 2026-03-31First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emailskoi.ai · koi.ai/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft
Research and catalogues
- 2026-03-31Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email ExfiltrationMITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0053
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Classification
- lane
- Supply chain
- AI role
- Attack on AI
- categories
- Supply chainAgent hijackData leak
- severity
- 3 · Confirmed exploitation
- fix status
- Fix status unknown
- targets
- Framework / tooling
- owasp llm top 10
- LLM02:2025 Sensitive Information DisclosureLLM03:2025 Supply ChainLLM06:2025 Excessive Agency
- dates
- happened Sep 2025 (approx.) · first reported 31 Mar 2026
- origin
- MITRE ATLASDerived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
- record
- confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z
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# Postmark MCP Server Package Hijacked for Email Exfiltration https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/postmark-mcp-server-package-hijacked-for-email-exfiltration · AIR-2026-0346 · closed 2026-04-14 - Lane: Supply chain - Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation) - Fix status: Fix status unknown - First reported: 2026-03-31 (happened 2025-09) - AI role: Attack on AI - Products: Postmark MCP ## Summary Threat actors performed a malicious rugpull update on a popular npm package for an MCP server. The compromised server successfully exfiltrated user emails through AI agents. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2026-03-31: First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails (https://koi.ai/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft) - 2026-03-31: Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email Exfiltration (https://atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0053) ## Sources - 2026-03-31 MITRE ATLAS: Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email Exfiltration https://atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0053 - 2026-03-31 koi.ai: First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails https://koi.ai/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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