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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.
Why can a Word or Excel file execute shell code? Why does M$ SQL Server have xp_cmdshell?
Because devs chose to live in this part of the world, dictated by M$ and other large companies, who just don’t care.