{"id":2250,"date":"2025-02-27T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/vscode-extensions-with-9-million-installs-pulled-over-security-risks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:05:34","slug":"vscode-extensions-with-9-million-installs-pulled-over-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/vscode-extensions-with-9-million-installs-pulled-over-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Microsoft has removed two popular VSCode extensions, &#8216;Material Theme &#8211; Free&#8217; and\u00a0 &#8216;Material Theme Icons &#8211; Free,&#8217; from the Visual Studio Marketplace for allegedly containing malicious code. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/vscode-extensions-with-9-million-installs-pulled-over-security-risks\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks Microsoft has removed two popular VSCode extensions, &#8216;Material Theme &#8211; Free&#8217; and\u00a0 &#8216;Material Theme Icons &#8211; Free,&#8217; from the Visual Studio Marketplace for allegedly containing malicious code. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}