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Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs

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Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 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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Jokes on them. I don’t have either bitcoins or ram

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