Malicious extensions can pose a security risk to users by installing malware, stealing user data, or performing other harmful actions. They can be used to add new features, support new programming languages, integrate with external tools and services, and more. The VSCode extensions are add-ons that can be installed to upgrade the functionality of the editor. The marketplace includes official Microsoft and third-party extensions developed by the community.Īs for today, the marketplace includes around 50k extensions. One of the main reasons is the VSCode Extensions Marketplace, a central hub where developers can discover and install new extensions to enhance their coding experience. VSCode has gained much popularity in recent years and has become one of developers’ most popular code editors. It’s an efficient and customizable coding environment that can support a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, and tools. VSCode (short for Visual Studio Code) is a popular and free source code editor developed by Microsoft.
Soon after notification, they were removed by the VSCode marketplace team. Once detected, we’ve alerted VSCode on these extensions.Users installing these extensions were enabling attackers to steal PII records and to set remote shell to their machines.CloudGuard Spectral detected malicious extensions on the VSCode marketplace.
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