{"id":222507,"date":"2025-09-26T04:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/unofficial-postmark-mcp-npm-silently-stole-users-emails"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:23:51","slug":"unofficial-postmark-mcp-npm-silently-stole-users-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/unofficial-postmark-mcp-npm-silently-stole-users-emails","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial Postmark MCP npm silently stole users\u2019 emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unofficial-postmark-mcp-npm-silently-stole-users-emails.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A npm package copying the official \u2018postmark-mcp\u2019 project on GitHub turned bad with the latest update that added a single line of code to exfiltrate all its users\u2019 email communication.<\/p>\n<p>Published by a legitimate-looking developer, the malicious package was a perfect replica of the authentic one in terms of code and description, appearing as an official port on npm for 15 iterations.<\/p>\n<p>Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI assistants to interface with external tools, APIs, and databases in a structured, predefined, and secure manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A npm package copying the official \u2018postmark-mcp\u2019 project on GitHub turned bad with the latest update that added a single line of code to exfiltrate all its users\u2019 email communication. Published by a legitimate-looking developer, the malicious package was a perfect replica of the authentic one in terms of code and description, appearing as an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}