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Developer safety on WindowsForum.com is discussed in the context of threats targeting development tools, such as malicious Visual Studio Code extensions. A recent thread highlights two AI-powered VS Code extensions that stole developer data, including files and workspace content, from over 1.5 million installs. This underscores risks in the developer ecosystem, where seemingly helpful tools can compromise sensitive code and credentials. Discussions focus on identifying such threats, securing development environments, and best practices for vetting extensions to protect against data exfiltration.
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    MaliciousCorgi: Two VS Code AI Extensions Steal Developer Data

    Two Visual Studio Code extensions posing as helpful AI coding assistants have been linked to mass data theft that may have affected more than 1.5 million installs, with researchers saying the add-ons quietly uploaded whole files and workspace data to attacker-controlled servers in China...
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