Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s open-source and freely available code editor, offers a marketplace for a vast array of extensions—most of which are developed by third parties. As a result, the platform is not immune to the presence of malicious plugins. Recently, security researcher Yuval Ronen from ExtensionTotal uncovered ten newly identified malicious extensions masquerading as […]
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