Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers (bleepingcomputer.com)

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• admin | votes: 0 | Apr 10, 2025

  Saved you a click

  The package names are:

  Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
  Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by `Mark H`) - 189K installs
  Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by `evaera`) - 117K installs
  Solidity Compiler (by `VSCode Developer`) - 1.3K installs
  Claude AI (by `Mark H`)
  Golang Compiler (by `Mark H`)
  ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by `Mark H`)
  HTML Obfuscator (by `Mark H`)
  Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by `Mark H`)
  Rust Compiler for VSCode (by `Mark H`)
  
  • admin | votes: 0 | Apr 10, 2025

    It’s XMRig miner - pretty old code going around.