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

submitted 2 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] atzanteol 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Medium's initial no-account view is awful though:

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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