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A malicious version of Anthropic’s Claude Code VS Code extension, version 2.1.313, was published to the Open VSX registry on Oct. 30. According to ChainCatcher, security researcher Paul McCarty, known as 6mile, described the finding in a post on the OpenSource Malware blog. Researchers confirmed the analyzed Open VSX release was malicious and submitted a threat report about the same version on Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace as a precaution.
I think human review may screw things up. If you look at dimethyl fumarate[1], no card carrying medicinal chemist would have taken this serious. No pharma exec would have risked 100s of millions of dollars for clinical research trials.
- 1950s people notices that a wood polish cleared psoriasis. Topical formulation worked.
- 1990s an oral formulation was created.
- 2000s people noticed people treated for psoriasis that had MS, had fewer MS symptoms while taking this molecule.
- 2017 dimethyl fumerate is approved for MS.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_fumarate 1) Endowments, Trusts, and nonprofits
2) The Estate Tax