{"id":11562,"date":"2026-03-24T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/north-korean-hackers-abuse-vs-code-auto-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:04:00","slug":"north-korean-hackers-abuse-vs-code-auto-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/north-korean-hackers-abuse-vs-code-auto-html\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that&#8217;s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects.<br \/>\nThe use of VS Code &#8220;tasks.json&#8221; to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025, with the attacks<\/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\/03\/north-korean-hackers-abuse-vs-code-auto.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that&#8217;s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code &#8220;tasks.json&#8221; to distribute [&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-11562","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\/11562"}],"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=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}