{"id":6014,"date":"2025-11-03T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:16:46","slug":"malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious VSX Extension &#8220;SleepyDuck&#8221; Uses Ethereum to Keep Its Command Server Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck.<br \/>\nAccording to Secure Annex&#8217;s John Tuckner, the extension in question, juan-bianco.solidity-vlang (version 0.0.7), was first published on October 31, 2025, as a completely benign library that was subsequently updated to version 0.0.8 on November 1 to\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck.<br \/>\nAccording to Secure Annex&#8217;s John Tuckner, the extension in question, juan-bianco.solidity-vlang (version 0.0.7), was first published on October 31, 2025, as a completely benign library that was subsequently updated to version 0.0.8 on November 1 to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck. According to Secure Annex&#8217;s John Tuckner, the extension in question, juan-bianco.solidity-vlang (version 0.0.7), was first published on October 31, 2025, as a completely benign library that was subsequently updated to version 0.0.8 on November&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious VSX Extension &#8220;SleepyDuck&#8221; Uses Ethereum to Keep Its Command Server Alive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}