Security researchers have warned about an « easily exploitable » flaw in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer that could be abused by a malicious actor to impersonate a legitimate publisher and distribute malicious extensions.
« A threat actor could impersonate a popular publisher and issue a malicious extension to compromise a targeted system, » Varonis researcher Dolev Taler said. « Malicious

Security researchers have warned about an « easily exploitable » flaw in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer that could be abused by a malicious actor to impersonate a legitimate publisher and distribute malicious extensions.
« A threat actor could impersonate a popular publisher and issue a malicious extension to compromise a targeted system, » Varonis researcher Dolev Taler said. « Malicious