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incidents/AIR-2026-1405

Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses Malicious npm Packages to Distribute Malware

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationSupply chainAI phishing / social engineering

Threat actors deployed malicious npm packages offering free AI credits to deliver information stealers to developer machines. The campaign targeted users seeking access to prominent AI platforms.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • Supply chainprimary
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
  • AI phishing / social engineering
    Phishing, lures and social engineering produced or personalised at scale with AI.
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Anthropic, Google, Individuals
products
Claude, Gemini
incident date
19 Oct 2026
first reported
19 Oct 2026
origin
News & research feeds
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
npm · information_stealer · malware · supply_chain
record
created 2026-10-19 13:12Z · updated 2026-10-19 13:12Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-10-19
    Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic
    The Hacker News · thehackernews.com/2026/10/fake-web3-accelerator-uses-npm-packages.html

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