{"id":7447,"date":"2026-03-14T14:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72-open-vsx-extensions-to-target-developers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:11:37","slug":"glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72-open-vsx-extensions-to-target-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72-open-vsx-extensions-to-target-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a &#8220;significant escalation&#8221; in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;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\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a &#8220;significant escalation&#8221; in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a &#8220;significant escalation&#8221; in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry. &#8220;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\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72-open-vsx-extensions-to-target-developers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7448,"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\/7447"}],"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=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}