Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late
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Visual studio code tunnel Introduction Since July 2023, Microsoft is offering the perfect reverse shell, embedded inside Visual Studio Code, a widely used …

MSFT was responsible of a generation of non-educated users, half-assed sysadmin, what could go wrong, now ?

maybe your are not concerned with your 64GB laptop from which 60GB are used for entreprise spyware/antivirus hem, protective measure. :)

This seems similar to an ssh session, but ssh has great authentication and authorization parameters that can be setup. Whereas code.exe is left open.

So why is this getting down voted. Seems like a valid concern.

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I think it’s getting down-voted purely because OP’s title is essentially “mIcRo$oFt bAd!” instead of describing the issue. It’s not getting down-voted anywhere else this article was cross-posted to, where they used the article’s actual title.

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