{"id":228257,"date":"2026-01-03T01:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-glassworm-malware-wave-targets-macs-with-trojanized-crypto-wallets"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:13:26","slug":"new-glassworm-malware-wave-targets-macs-with-trojanized-crypto-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-glassworm-malware-wave-targets-macs-with-trojanized-crypto-wallets","title":{"rendered":"New GlassWorm malware wave targets Macs with trojanized crypto wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-glassworm-malware-wave-targets-macs-with-trojanized-crypto-wallets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fourth wave of the \u201cGlassWorm\u201d campaign is targeting macOS developers with malicious VSCode\/OpenVSX extensions that deliver trojanized versions of crypto wallet applications.<\/p>\n<p>Extensions in the OpenVSX registry and the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace expand the capabilities of a VS Code-compatible editor by adding features and productivity enhancements in the form of development tools, language support, or themes.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft marketplace is the official extension store for Visual Studio Code, whereas OpenVSX serves as an open, vendor-neutral alternative, primarily used by editors that do not support or choose not to rely on Microsoft\u2019s proprietary marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fourth wave of the \u201cGlassWorm\u201d campaign is targeting macOS developers with malicious VSCode\/OpenVSX extensions that deliver trojanized versions of crypto wallet applications. Extensions in the OpenVSX registry and the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace expand the capabilities of a VS Code-compatible editor by adding features and productivity enhancements in the form of development tools, language [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228257","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=228257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}