{"id":229450,"date":"2026-01-21T01:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:36:51","slug":"north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects","title":{"rendered":"North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-linked-hackers-target-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners on developer systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners on developer systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229450","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=229450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}