Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development ...

Open VSX removes 77 evil twin extensions that impersonate developer tools and exfiltrate host, workspace, Git, and CI data.

In most cases, the majority of the file extensions you encounter on your computer are already associated with a program or protocol. When a file extension is not associated with a program, however, ...

Every file that we have saved on our computers has a particular extension. The file extension is added at the end of the filename followed by a dot (.). It tells the operating systems about the ...

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace checks and silently installing malware onto developers’ systems. Threat ...

Open VSX is an open source alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace. The registry serves VS Code-compatible extensions for multiple developer tools. Eclipse says Open VSX delivers more than 600 ...