Open VSX Marketplace Extensions - Tool

Overview

Open VSX Marketplace Extensions is an open-source marketplace for Visual Studio Code extensions. Because extensions can execute code within the host IDE, this platform constitutes a potential cybersecurity risk surface where malicious or compromised extensions could be published to harvest data, deliver payloads, or seed intrusions, making publisher vetting and permission controls critical.

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• New GlassWorm Malware Targets macOS Developers with Trojanized Crypto Wallets

  A fourth wave of the GlassWorm campaign is targeting macOS developers by distributing malicious VSCode/OpenVSX extensions that contain trojanized versions of crypto wallet applications. These extensions are available in…

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Recent Intelligence Reports

• GlassWorm Malware Evolves to Target macOS Systems with Hardware Wallet Trojans — Technadu · January 2, 2026

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