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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 11 months ago

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

www.bleepingcomputer.com

floofloof@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 11 months ago
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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 with millions of installs.
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    infeections

    Since I read this I can’t stop picturing you as Peter Lorre lmao.

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      Damn now I noticed i did tons of mistake/types there ^^'.

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        Lol it was just one of those things where I read it in his voice for that word.

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