Affected: npm: tailwind-kinetic

tailwind-kinetic (2.0.6, 2.0.8) is a Tailwind CSS plugin from the fake job interview campaign behind MAL-2026-17665 and MAL-2026-17666: the same Animate.css integration template, README and description, published by keinsell-jh on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils, which is not readable on the public registry and resolves only with the npm token committed in the lure repository's web/.npmrc, so the code it delivers runs when tailwind.config.js loads the plugin and the dev server starts. The published tarball contains no install scripts and no network code; the payload lives in the private dependency, which was not retrieved. Twenty-six such packages under seventeen accounts were published between 2026-07-28 and 2026-10-09.

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## Source: amazon-inspector (7e3f9ad75ef45aa648c3ff19140cd357126ff94d9fe2b29eb5859d8db91a67fc) The package tailwind-kinetic version 2.0.8 was inspected across 8 files. No install-time lifecycle scripts fetching or executing remote content were observed, no credential or filesystem-secret reads (such as ~/.npmrc, ~/.aws, ~/.ssh, or browser profile stores) were present, no hardcoded exfiltration endpoints or obfuscated network destinations were identified, and no backdoor, silent-relay, or self-propagation mechanisms were found. The package's shipped content does not exhibit any of the enumerated supply-chain attack fingerprints…