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floofloof to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year 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 to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year 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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    Does that mean the hacker is in my room??

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      We’re seeing connections from IP addresses that aren’t even routable on the internet. We’re compromised. Time to format.

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      Turns out you were the hacker all along

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