
Colloidal
Colloidal@programming.dev
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Well spotted. https://securityonline.info/malicious-vscode-extensions-caught-mining-crypto-with-xmrig/ This news article has a link to this listing: https://app.extensiontotal.com/report/prettierteam.prettier
Notably, the developer name is different.
In case someone stumbles upon this now, Prettier got caught running a crypto miner on users’ computers: https://programming.dev/post/28214590
Yo, @drspod@lemmy.ml, check the article again. Prettier, a very popular extension, heads the list now:
Prettier — Code for VSCode (by prettier) – 955K 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)