{"id":230372,"date":"2026-02-03T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-glassworm-attack-targets-macos-via-compromised-openvsx-extensions"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:29:08","slug":"new-glassworm-attack-targets-macos-via-compromised-openvsx-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-glassworm-attack-targets-macos-via-compromised-openvsx-extensions","title":{"rendered":"New GlassWorm attack targets macOS via compromised OpenVSX extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-glassworm-attack-targets-macos-via-compromised-openvsx-extensions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor gained access to the account of a legitimate developer (oorzc) and pushed malicious updates with the GlassWorm payload to four extensions that had been downloaded 22,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>GlassWorm attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/self-spreading-glassworm-malware-hits-openvsx-vs-code-registries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first appeared in late October<\/a>, hiding the malicious code using \u201cinvisible\u201d Unicode characters to steal cryptocurrency wallet and developer account details. The malware also supports VNC-based remote access and SOCKS proxying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems. The threat actor gained access to the account of a legitimate developer (oorzc) and pushed malicious updates with the GlassWorm payload to four extensions that had been downloaded 22,000 times. GlassWorm attacks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230372","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=230372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}