If you talk to almost any embedded team, they’ll tell you they want more code reuse. Reusable drivers. Reusable middleware. Reusable services. Reusable “platforms.” But when you look at most real ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

In December 2025, the GlassWorm supply chain malware campaign emerged again, affecting both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX platforms. This episode involved 24 extensions posing ...

Cybersecurity firm Koi Security uncovers a new wave of the GlassWorm campaign, which hides malware in invisible Unicode code within VS Code extensions. The malware steals GitHub, Open VSX, and crypto ...

GlassWorm, a self-propagating malware targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX marketplace, have apparently continued despite statements that the threat had been contained.

Pervasive, evasive malware thought to have been eliminated has wormed its way back into development environments. Just a little over two weeks after GlassWorm was declared “fully contained and closed” ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

The malware uses invisible Unicode characters to hide its code and blockchain-based infrastructure to prevent takedowns. Visual Studio developers are targeted with a self-propagating worm in a ...

A self-propagating worm is targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions in a complex supply chain attack that has infected 35,800 developer machines so far with techniques the likes of which ...

The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...