Supply-chain compromise affecting an organization (software development)
A malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" was uploaded to the npm registry in mid-August 2026, claiming to be a Twilio security tool but designed to harvest sensitive data and exfiltrate credentials from developers.
Sources
- Primary source on file. It names the organization, so it is not linked while this entry is anonymized.
- Upstream: Security news (RSS + Claude). The upstream record names the organization, so it is not linked here.
- Candidate incidents extracted from public security reporting; every entry links its article
Defenses for this class of incident
all categoriesA supply chain sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.
Vendor data: AI Security Startups Map by Prompt Security (CC BY 4.0), synced daily. startups.prompt.security. Paid placements are labelled Sponsored; HeimWall, which runs this site, is labelled Operator. 452 companies in the directory.
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