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Well this was an extremely unsophisticated attack. The malware wasn't hidden and they didn't even bother to actually copy the real extension.

If I were doing this I would copy the real extension, give it a name that made it sound official but in the README say it is a tweaked version with some improvements or whatever. Also actually add some improvements, but hide the malware in those changes.

Good luck finding that. (brb going to try this)



The whole thing worked only because they gamed open-vsx ranking algorithm.




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