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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

  1. 31 Mar 2026Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email Exfiltration
  2. 31 Mar 2026First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails

Sources · 2

News and write-ups

  1. 2026-03-31
    First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails
    koi.ai · koi.ai/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft

Research and catalogues

  1. 2026-03-31
    Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email Exfiltration
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0053

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Classification

AI role
Attack on AI
categories
Supply chainAgent hijackData leak
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
fix status
Fix status unknown
targets
Framework / tooling
dates
happened Sep 2025 (approx.) · first reported 31 Mar 2026
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
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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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