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GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers

UnknownMar 14, 2026(about 5 hours ago)

The GlassWorm campaign is escalating its attacks by abusing Open VSX extensions to target developers through a supply-chain attack.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a "significant escalation" in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry. "Instead of requiring every malicious listing to embed the loader directly, the threat actor is now abusing extensionPack and extensionDependencies to turn initially standalone-looking extensions into transitive

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