{"id":224457,"date":"2025-11-04T01:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:15:50","slug":"malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive","title":{"rendered":"Malicious VSX Extension \u201cSleepyDuck\u201d Uses Ethereum to Keep Its Command Server Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-vsx-extension-sleepyduck-uses-ethereum-to-keep-its-command-server-alive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers uncover SleepyDuck RAT hidden in VSX extension, using Ethereum contracts to control infected hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers uncover SleepyDuck RAT hidden in VSX extension, using Ethereum contracts to control infected hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}