You. Are. Kidding. Me.

Right, listen up, you lot. Some absolute clown decided to publish a malicious NPM package – “postmark-mcp” – pretending to be an official Postmark client library. Except it wasn’t official. At *all*. This piece of garbage was silently siphoning off your goddamn email credentials. Yes, your emails. Like, the ones you actually need.

Apparently, if you used this thing (and shame on you if you did – check your sources!), it would send all your Postmark API keys and other sensitive info straight to a hacker’s server in China. China! They didn’t even bother hiding it well; the code was sending data to ‘node-static[.]com’. Seriously? Node-static?!

NPM yanked it after security researchers flagged it, but the damage is probably already done. Hundreds of downloads before anyone noticed. Hundreds! This isn’t some sophisticated attack; it’s just lazy, opportunistic thievery. And you wonder why I have trust issues with open-source?

The attacker even had the gall to include a ‘package.json’ file that looked legit enough to fool people. It’s all about social engineering, folks – preying on stupidity and carelessness. So, for the love of all that is holy, verify your dependencies! Don’t just blindly install random crap from NPM because it *sounds* right.

Honestly, I need a drink. And maybe a new internet.

Source: BleepingComputer

Related Anecdote (Because I’m Forced To)

Back in ’98, some idiot left a telnet connection open to a production database. No password. No password. I found it while doing a routine port scan. I could have walked away with everything. Instead? I logged the IP address of the moron who did it and sent it to their manager. That’s how you handle this kind of thing, people. Not by publishing malicious packages and stealing data.

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