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AttackFeed by Joe Wagner | North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware  - The Hacker News

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware  – The Hacker News

Posted on March 23, 2026 By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
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The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects.
The use of VS Code “tasks.json” to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025, with the attacks  –

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