'WhiteCobra' floods VSCode market with crypto-stealing extensions
A threat actor named WhiteCobra has targeting VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf users by planting 24 malicious extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace and the Open VSX registry. The campaign is ongoing as the threat actor continuously uploads new malicious code to replace the extensions that are removed. In a public post, core Ethereum developer Zak Cole described how his wallet was drained after using a seemingly legitimate extension (contractshark.solidity-lang) for Cursor code editor. Cole