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Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by registeredcorn on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:56AM (#43194897)
Any update on this? I am not directly impacted, but am unsure about others in my company. Assuming that they may be:

* Any specifics on the (potential) impact for affected users?

* What they should do to get it removed?

Edit: There does seem to be a little bit more information available over at Bleeping Computer[1], but the precise nature of what the malware does is unclear at this time other than that it may be some type of "supply chain attack". It would be good to hear more about the specifics.

1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vscode-extens...

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Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by josekbono on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:00AM (#43319072)
It is my understanding that the VSCode team uninstalled this from the marketplace service, as in, it was remotely uninstalled. I just opened my VSCode on an old laptop that had extensions from this actor and everything under his publishing account got removed.
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