Two malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions were found deploying in-development ransomware from a remote server, exposing critical gaps in Microsoft's review process.
To avoid compromised packages being introduced as a dependency in a larger project, security teams need to keep an eye peeled for such malicious code.
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to
ReversingLabs has uncovered a series of VS Code extensions that designed to siphon off sensitive information from unsuspecting users.
Highlights: CloudGuard Spectrals detected malicious extensions on the VSCode marketplace Users installing these extensions were enabling attackers to