Over 100 VS Code Extensions Exposed Developers to Hidden Supply Chain Risks [email protected] (The Hacker News)

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk.
“A leaked VSCode Marketplace or Open VSX PAT [personal access token] allows an attacker to directly distribute a malicious extension update across the entire install base,”Read More