Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M installs.

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Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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Two malicious extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. Both extensions are ...

Two VSCode extensions exfiltrated sensitive user data to Chinese servers ChatGPT – 中文版 and ChatMoss had over 1.5 million installs combined Extensions used hidden iframes, commands, and SDKs to steal ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.