Supply Chain Attacks
VS Code marketplace incident postmortem: what 2023-2024 actually taught us
Between 2023 and 2024 the VS Code Marketplace saw a string of typosquat, hijack, and impersonation incidents that shaped Microsoft's eventual hardening response. This is a composite postmortem of what happened, what changed, and what is still broken in 2026.
May 13, 20268 min read