A published VS Code extension didn't hide the fact that it encrypts and exfiltrates data and also failed to remove obvious signs it was AI-generated.
An online billing service named HarborCloud runs a browser callable REST API and the engineers must prevent web pages served from other domains from invoking those endpoints in a browser. Which ...
A malicious extension was published on Microsoft’s official VS Code marketplace, and was able to remain there for some time gathering downloads and infecting people’s computers.