The Glassworm campaign has compromised over 151 GitHub repositories and npm packages using invisible Unicode payloads that evade standard code review.
Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...
The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code ...
GlassWorm campaign used 72 malicious Open VSX extensions and infected 151 GitHub repositories, enabling stealth supply-chain attacks on developers.
VS Code keeps adding new features as time goes on, and if you weren't careful, you likely missed things like sticky scroll, zen mode, and more.