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Self-Spreading 'GlassWorm' Infects VS Code Extensions in Widespread Supply Chain Attack

GlassWorm spread via 14 VS Code extensions; Solana + Google Calendar C2; stole credentials, drained 49 wallets.

Self-spreading GlassWorm malware hits OpenVSX, VS Code registries

A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with ...
SecurityWeek

Supply Chain Attack Targets VS Code Extensions With ‘GlassWorm’ Malware

Visual Studio developers are targeted with a self-propagating worm in a sophisticated supply chain attack through the OpenVSX ...

Malicious crypto-stealing VSCode extensions resurface on OpenVSX

A threat actor called TigerJack is constantly targeting developers with malicious extensions published on Microsoft's Visual ...
GIGAZINE

It has been revealed that some VSCode extensions have a malicious function that encrypts files and demands ransom

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) allows you to use extensions to make development more convenient. It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio ...
CSO Online

Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces

There isn’t a consistent threat model for extension marketplaces yet, McCarthy said, making it difficult for any platform to ...

VSCode extensions pulled over security risks, but millions of users have already installed

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly pulled them and notifies users ...
TechRadar

The VSCode Marketplace is pretty easy to hack with malicious extensions

VSCode Marketplace, a repository for Visual Studio Code (VSC) externsions, has poor security defenses, allowing threat actors to abuse it and distribute malicious code among the millions of its users, ...