VSCode Extension Marketplace Breach Disclosure Withholds Extension Names
A malicious VSCode extension breached 3,800 GitHub repos, but breach disclosures do not name the specific extension. Developers with dozens of installed extensions cannot self-audit or remove the threat without this information, exposing the structural trust problem in extension marketplaces.
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