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

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

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But why can a theme make web requests?!

Because we live in a broken world and nothing matters.

On a more serious note, it's a pretty horrifying misfeature. What's even more worrying is that by all appearances Microsoft doesn't give a shit, if they apparently didn't even bother removing the malicious extensions that were reported. Not that I'm surprised, but still.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

But why can a theme make web requests?!

Why can a Word or Excel file execute shell code? Why does M$ SQL Server have xp_cmdshell?

Because we live in a broken world and nothing matters.

Because devs chose to live in this part of the world, dictated by M$ and other large companies, who just don't care.