9mo ago

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

www.bleepingcomputer.com Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions wit...

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9mo ago

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/security/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered/

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floofloof @lemmy.ca

9mo ago

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/security/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered/

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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...
- I don't think I realized that the extensions could contain code since most of them are just doing syntax highlighting.
  
  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
  
  Yeah I'm not using anything like that. Bit irresponsible of MS to not audit this stuff, then. Lots of businesses allowing users to install vs code extensions freely even if they're otherwise restricted for software installs.