Supply-chain compromise affecting an organization (Software Development)
A fake Web3 accelerator distributed malicious npm packages containing information-stealing malware and backdoors, claiming to offer free AI credits for Claude and Gemini along with coding tools and security audits. The attack hijacked AI agent traffic and targeted Windows and macOS systems through the npm supply chain.
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. 460 companies in the directory.
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