{"id":6830,"date":"2026-01-28T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-code-marketplace-drops-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:12:01","slug":"fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-code-marketplace-drops-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-code-marketplace-drops-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but stealthily drops a malicious payload on compromised hosts.<br \/>\nThe extension, named &#8220;ClawdBot Agent &#8211; AI Coding Assistant&#8221; (&#8220;clawdbot.clawdbot-agent&#8221;)\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but stealthily drops a malicious payload on compromised hosts.<br \/>\nThe extension, named &#8220;ClawdBot Agent &#8211; AI Coding Assistant&#8221; (&#8220;clawdbot.clawdbot-agent&#8221;)\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but stealthily drops a malicious payload on compromised hosts. The extension, named &#8220;ClawdBot Agent &#8211; AI Coding Assistant&#8221; (&#8220;clawdbot.clawdbot-agent&#8221;)\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-code-marketplace-drops-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6831,"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\/6830"}],"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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}