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Feb 17 2026 Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

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Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local files and execute code remotely. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Tue 17 February 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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