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title: "Holy Cow 🙄 VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000…"
date: 2023-05-22T15:12:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2023/05/22/holy-cow-vscode/
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# Holy Cow 🙄 VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000…

Holy Cow 🙄

VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads- PII Exposed, and Backdoors Enabled

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