{"id":2810,"date":"2025-03-25T07:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/vscode-marketplace-removes-two-html\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:06:28","slug":"vscode-marketplace-removes-two-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/vscode-marketplace-removes-two-html\/","title":{"rendered":"VSCode Marketplace Removes Two Extensions Deploying Early-Stage Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    VSCode Marketplace Removes Two Extensions Deploying Early-Stage Ransomware<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 uncovered two malicious extensions in the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that are designed to deploy ransomware that&#8217;s under development to its users.<br \/>\nThe extensions, named &#8220;ahban.shiba&#8221; and &#8220;ahban.cychelloworld,&#8221; have since been taken down by the marketplace maintainers.<br \/>\nBoth the extensions, per ReversingLabs, incorporate code that&#8217;s designed to invoke a<\/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\/2025\/03\/vscode-marketplace-removes-two.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VSCode Marketplace Removes Two Extensions Deploying Early-Stage Ransomware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious extensions in the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that are designed to deploy ransomware that&#8217;s under development to its users. The extensions, named &#8220;ahban.shiba&#8221; and &#8220;ahban.cychelloworld,&#8221; have since been taken down by the marketplace maintainers. Both the extensions, per ReversingLabs, incorporate [&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-2810","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\/2810"}],"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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}