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Postmark MCP - Malicious Email Backdoor

Apparently, someone has cloned official postmark-mcp and published their version in npm using postmark-mcp.

And it had roughly 1,500 downloads per week in npm. Some people might have installed assuming that its a official version.

However on version 1.0.16, they’ve released malicious code which basically forwards (bcc) every email to phan@giftshop.club

Imagine you were using that MCP to send something confidential like API key, the attacker has access to it 😅

How to safeguard ourself?

This is a good lesson that you should not be using a random MCP.

And even for the official ones, it is recommended to use explicit versioning for anything that is mission critical.

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