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Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago

Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs

www.koi.ai

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Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs

www.koi.ai

Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago
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Two popular AI coding extensions with 1.5M installs secretly harvest your entire codebase and profile you. Both are still live in the marketplace.
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  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    Damn, I took a quick look and I knew those two were shady just by the names and publishers.

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    We install them without a second thought.

    Do we?

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    Ha ha. Good luck getting anything useful out of the dog shit code I write.

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    Laughs in emacs…

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      You won’t laugh anymore when North Korean hackers start to learn the weird Lisp variant that Emacs uses. Your RAM will be filled with vibe-coded macros stealing your bitcoins.

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        Jokes on them. I don’t have either bitcoins or ram

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    Good good, let it flow.

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