{"id":10228,"date":"2026-01-29T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:03:32","slug":"fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity 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;)<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/01\/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware Cybersecurity 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}