Socket has notified the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees the Open VSX marketplace, of the latest fraudulent additions, and Burckhardt expects that by now all 73 have been deleted.

VS Code extensions since Dec 21, 2025 fuel GlassWorm v2, installing cross-IDE malware and stealing credentials.

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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 ...