{"id":229872,"date":"2026-01-27T02:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/malicious-vs-code-ai-extensions-with-1-5-million-installs-steal-developer-source-code"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:23:07","slug":"malicious-vs-code-ai-extensions-with-1-5-million-installs-steal-developer-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/malicious-vs-code-ai-extensions-with-1-5-million-installs-steal-developer-source-code","title":{"rendered":"Malicious VS Code AI Extensions with 1.5 Million Installs Steal Developer Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-vs-code-ai-extensions-with-1-5-million-installs-steal-developer-source-code2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to China-based servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to China-based servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229872","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=229872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}