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Warning to developers: Stay away from these 10 VSCode extensions

Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a cryptominer.  The warning comes from researchers at Extension Total, who said possibly as many as 1 million of these malicious extensions, which pretend to be popular…