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Nov 03 2025 Fake Solidity VSCode extension on Open VSX backdoors developers

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A remote access trojan dubbed SleepyDuck, and disguised as the well-known Solidity extension in the Open VSX open-source registry, uses an Ethereum smart contract to establish a communication channel with the attacker. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Mon 03 November 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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