
Move over, npm: Now VS Code extensions can’t be trusted
It’s super easy to spoof Visual Studio Code extensions. And those spoofed extensions are incredibly hard to detect.
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Richi Jennings is a former developer and marketer. He’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, DevOps.com, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.
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It’s super easy to spoof Visual Studio Code extensions. And those spoofed extensions are incredibly hard to detect.
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