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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 3 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

You can't trust extensions these days.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or anything that downloads code from an untrusted source…

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

"Untrusted source" is ambiguous fyi

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