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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 5 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Tons of devtools summons cmd.exe and do networks. Their claim is that more than 10% of the vscode marketplate is malicious package (i just divided the number of extensions they says is malicious, by the number of extensions)