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Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Just that? An open source HTML minifier probably bundled with a miner.
Minification isn't the same as obfuscation, though. The only way I can think to obfuscate HTML would be to replace every element with a custom element.
That is true!
But one could make up all kinds of tactics. Especially with the help of css styles inside the document. For example: add random crap, make it invisible. Make the real content hard to see or find in the document. Why though? I don't know! Now I am kind of curious to know what it did, if anything.
Minification is a form of obfuscation. It makes it (much) less readable.
Of course you could run a formatter over it. But that's already an additional step you have to do. By the same reasoning you could run a deobfuscator over more obfuscated code.