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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/vscode

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"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."

[–] towerful 2 points 6 months ago

The plugin is called "Darcula Official" btw.

There is a more generic theme (for multiple applications) called Dracula.
JetBrains IDE has a theme called Darcula, and there are vscode themes on the marketplace that implement this.

So, it's more than just a typosquat