{"id":190919,"date":"2024-06-09T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered"},"modified":"2024-06-09T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:24:28","slug":"malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to \u201cinfect\u201d over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular \u2018Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs.<\/p>\n<p>Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a source code editor published by Microsoft and used by many professional software developers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also operates an extensions market for the IDE, called the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, which offers add-ons that extend the application\u2019s functionality and provide more customization options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to \u201cinfect\u201d over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular \u2018Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}