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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That article is awful...

The original post it's hacking is better: https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/2-6-exposing-malicious-extensions-shocking-statistics-from-the-vs-code-marketplace-cf88b7a7f38f

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    • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I always found it weird how people are willing to install obscure extensions just like that. For any program that supports them. This doesn't surprise me at all.

    That being said I'll go recheck the few I have installed...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't think I realized that the extensions could contain code since most of them are just doing syntax highlighting.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You obviously haven't seen the platformio extension.
    It's a beast, turns VSCode into an embedded IDE and programmer for loads of different microchips

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    There was also recently something similar with ComfyUI, where an extensions was embedded with a malware.

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