A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs.
You can’t trust extensions these days.
Or anything that downloads code from an untrusted source…
Gone are my student days where I downloaded whichever cool vim plugins
“Untrusted source” is ambiguous fyi