{"id":6060,"date":"2025-11-07T08:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/vibe-coded-malicious-vs-code-extension-found-with-built-in-ransomware-capabilities\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:14:49","slug":"vibe-coded-malicious-vs-code-extension-found-with-built-in-ransomware-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/vibe-coded-malicious-vs-code-extension-found-with-built-in-ransomware-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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 \u2013 in other words, vibe-coded.<br \/>\nSecure Annex researcher John Tuckner, who flagged the extension &#8220;susvsex,&#8221; said it does not attempt to hide its malicious functionality. The extension was uploaded on\u00a0Cybersecurity 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 \u2013 in other words, vibe-coded.<br \/>\nSecure Annex researcher John Tuckner, who flagged the extension &#8220;susvsex,&#8221; said it does not attempt to hide its malicious functionality. The extension was uploaded on\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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 \u2013 in other words, vibe-coded. Secure Annex researcher John Tuckner, who flagged the extension &#8220;susvsex,&#8221; said it does not attempt to hide its malicious functionality. The extension was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/vibe-coded-malicious-vs-code-extension-found-with-built-in-ransomware-capabilities\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware Capabilities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6061,"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\/6060"}],"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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}