Security Alert: Identifying Malicious Extensions in Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace

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Microsoft vscode remove several extension after finding out, they were using malware to stole user information and credentials such as discord and google chrome
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Three malicious extensions were found on the VSCode Marketplace, downloaded 46,600 times before their removal. The extensions identified as harmful were ‘Theme Darcula dark’, ‘python-vscode’ and ‘prettiest java’ Each of these posed unique threats to unsuspecting users.