TLDR Tech / InfoSec
GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers
Socket identified 72 more malicious Open VSX extensions active since January 31, 2026, as part of an intensified GlassWorm campaign. This campaign exploits `extensionPack` and `extensionDependencies` in `package.json` to chain seemingly harmless extensions into delivery mechanisms for transitive malware once trust is established. The malware continues to exhibit classic GlassWorm features, such as Russian locale checks, Solana transactions used as dead-drop resolvers for C2 resilience, and invisible Unicode characters used to hide payloads. Additionally, it now employs greater obfuscation and wallet rotation to evade detection. Meanwhile, Aikido linked the same actor to LLM-generated cover commits across 151 GitHub repositories and two npm packages (@aifabrix/miso-client, @iflow-mcp/watercrawl-watercrawl-mcp) from March 3 to March 9, 2026, targeting credentials, tokens, and secrets.
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