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North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware



March 23, 2026 at 11:39PM

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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