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

submitted 5 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 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...

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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.