GlassWorm malware hits 400+ code repos on GitHub, npm, VSCode, OpenVSX

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...
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GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...

Glassworm Malware Campaign Uses Invisible Code To Infect Hundreds Of GitHub Repos

The GlassWorm malware made news when it pivoted from exclusively targeting Windows users to also targeting Mac OS users in January, and in the time since, the malware campaign has spread across at ...
InfoWorld

Open VSX extensions hijacked: GlassWorm malware spreads via dependency abuse

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, And A Botnet Shutdown

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...
GitHub

When opening a new terminal, Python venv is activated twice

I recently noticed this too while using UV. Setting Python-envs › Terminal: Auto Activation Type to off in the settings (or equivalently adding "python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType": "off", in ...
GitHub

Python extension for Visual Studio Code

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...
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