GlassWorm Infiltrated VSX Extensions with More than 22,000 Downloads to Attack Developers

GlassWorm has emerged as a serious threat to developers using the Open VSX Registry, where popular VSX extensions were silently turned into delivery vehicles for malware. Threat actors compromised a trusted publisher account and pushed poisoned updates that looked like routine releases but actually carried a staged loader. These extensions, which had more than 22,000 […]

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