{"id":6736,"date":"2026-01-20T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:14:22","slug":"north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a backdoor on compromised endpoints.<br \/>\nThe latest finding demonstrates continued evolution of the new tactic that was first discovered in December 2025, Jamf Threat Labs said.<br \/>\n&#8220;This activity involved\u00a0The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a backdoor on compromised endpoints.<br \/>\nThe latest finding demonstrates continued evolution of the new tactic that was first discovered in December 2025, Jamf Threat Labs said.<br \/>\n&#8220;This activity involved\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a backdoor on compromised endpoints. The latest finding demonstrates continued evolution of the new tactic that was first discovered in December 2025, Jamf Threat Labs said. &#8220;This&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6737,"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\/6736"}],"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=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}