A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs.
  • @towerfulEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    The plugin is called “Darcula Official” btw.

    There is a more generic theme (for multiple applications) called Dracula.
    JetBrains IDE has a theme called Darcula, and there are vscode themes on the marketplace that implement this.

    So, it’s more than just a typosquat