{"id":7741,"date":"2026-04-10T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/glassworm-campaign-uses-zig-dropper-to-infect-multiple-developer-ides\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:13:46","slug":"glassworm-campaign-uses-zig-dropper-to-infect-multiple-developer-ides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/glassworm-campaign-uses-zig-dropper-to-infect-multiple-developer-ides\/","title":{"rendered":"GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the\u00a0ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that&#8217;s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer&#8217;s\u00a0machine.<br \/>\nThe technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named\u00a0&#8220;specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,&#8221; which masquerades as WakaTime, a\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the\u00a0ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that&#8217;s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer&#8217;s\u00a0machine.<br \/>\nThe technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named\u00a0&#8220;specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,&#8221; which masquerades as WakaTime, a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the\u00a0ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that&#8217;s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer&#8217;s\u00a0machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named\u00a0&#8220;specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,&#8221; which masquerades as WakaTime, a\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the\u00a0ongoing GlassWorm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/glassworm-campaign-uses-zig-dropper-to-infect-multiple-developer-ides\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7742,"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\/7741"}],"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=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}