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.

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

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

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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