#nxconsole

A malicious update to the popular Nx Console VS Code extension targeted 2.2M+ developers, injecting a 498 KB obfuscated payload to steal cloud and CI/CD credentials.

Nx Console contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability that allowed a malicious version of Nx Console to be published. The compromised extension fetched an obfuscated payload that could harvested credentials from multiple sources on disk and in memory.