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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft doesn't have a vetting process for publishing extensions in the store. Maybe the failure is that people assume they do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surely you mean "that Microsoft does not make it clear that they don't"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe, but I think the only app store that does vet apps is the Apple one, so that should be the default expectation.

And I think even they wouldn't manually look for something like this. They're mainly concerned about people breaking the commercial rules.