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  "textContent": "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.\nThe 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",
  "title": "North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware"
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