Malicious Exploits has hit VSCode Extensions Marketplace

Even innocuous items like themes are under threat by malware writers. Theme Dracula dark, not to be confused with Dark-Dracula Theme and 4986 others, is one such theme infected by malware and pointed out by CheckPoint. Removed by Microsoft, but now what extensions can you trust?  Same old opens source problem, you pay for what you get.

Source Article : VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads- PII Exposed, and Backdoors Enabled - Check Point Blog