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Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you look at the code of one of the "malicious code", it hit a ... local IP, not a remote one.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does that mean the hacker is in my room??

[–] noobface@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

We're seeing connections from IP addresses that aren't even routable on the internet. We're compromised. Time to format.

[–] QuadriLiteral@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Turns out you were the hacker all along