Microsoft has removed two popular VSCode extensions, 'Material Theme – Free' and 'Material Theme Icons – Free,' from the Visual Studio Marketplace for allegedly containing malicious code.

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft ... Theme - Free” and “Material Theme ...

To display icons in Visual Studio Code, install the “VSCode Icons” extension. After installation, restart VS Code and activate the icons if prompted. If not, manually navigate to File ...

The two VSCode extensions, which count over 9 million installs ... up in the distributed index.js (referring to Material Theme Icons). This script was used to generate JSON files after pulling ...