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Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief #26 March 19, 2026
Summary
In this episode of the Digital Warfare Daily Brief, we examine a supply chain campaign involving backdoored Open VSX extensions used as GitHub downloaders. Attackers leveraged transitive dependencies and trusted extension packaging mechanisms to distribute malicious loaders through developer environments.
This discussion focuses on how IDE extensions are becoming part of the enterprise attack surface, why dependency trust models are failing, and how developer tooling must now be treated as critical infrastructure within modern security programs.
Takeaways
• Attackers abused Open VSX…
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