Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
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...
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
Medium's initial no-account view is awful though:
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...