Developer environments are designed for speed, automation, and flexibility. Features like auto-run tasks and integrated scripting help streamline workflows, but they can also introduce new security risks when abused. New reporting from The Hacker News reveals that North Korean threat actors are exploiting auto-execution features in Visual Studio Code to execute malicious code on developer
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