{"id":242204,"date":"2026-08-05T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/77-open-vsx-extensions-found-harvesting-developer-info"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:12:25","slug":"77-open-vsx-extensions-found-harvesting-developer-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/77-open-vsx-extensions-found-harvesting-developer-info","title":{"rendered":"77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/77-open-vsx-extensions-found-harvesting-developer-info2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cevil twin\u201d campaign was discovered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manifold.security\/blog\/open-vsx-evil-twin-extensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manifold Security<\/a>, which detected the extensions between July 26 and August 1, 2026. Researchers linked all 77 extensions to the same activity through a shared data-exfiltration domain, as well as code and network behavior.<\/p>\n<p>While 58 extensions sent only a small amount of system information, the remaining 19 contained more extensive reconnaissance that exfiltrated developer, Git repository, and continuous integration (CI) metadata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed. The so-called \u201cevil twin\u201d campaign was discovered by Manifold Security, which detected the extensions between July 26 and August 1, 2026. Researchers linked all 77 extensions to the same activity through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242204","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=242204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}