{"id":8173,"date":"2025-11-04T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/fake-solidity-vscode-extension-on-open-vsx-backdoors-developers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:04:22","slug":"fake-solidity-vscode-extension-on-open-vsx-backdoors-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/fake-solidity-vscode-extension-on-open-vsx-backdoors-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Solidity VSCode extension on Open VSX backdoors developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake Solidity VSCode extension on Open VSX backdoors developers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A remote access trojan\u00a0dubbed SleepyDuck, and disguised as the well-known Solidity extension in the Open VSX open-source registry, uses an Ethereum smart contract to\u00a0establish a communication channel with the attacker. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-solidity-vscode-extension-on-open-vsx-backdoors-developers\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Solidity VSCode extension on Open VSX backdoors developers A remote access trojan\u00a0dubbed SleepyDuck, and disguised as the well-known Solidity extension in the Open VSX open-source registry, uses an Ethereum smart contract to\u00a0establish a communication channel with the attacker. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173"}],"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=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}