NX compromised: supply chain attack via IDE extension, again
The Nx Console extension for Visual Studio Code was compromised, leading to the distribution of malicious code. This code targeted sensitive developer credentials and cloud infrastructure tokens. The incident highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in software supply chains.
- ▪Version 18.95.0 of the Nx Console extension was published with malicious code.
- ▪The compromised extension has over 2.2 million installs.
- ▪The malicious code aimed at stealing developer credentials and CI/CD secrets.
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Record
| Original publisher | Stepsecurity |
| Canonical URL | https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/nx-console-vs-code-extension-compromised |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 19:51:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T20:04:56.984Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T20:04:56.984Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 1MqamS-vG2CI |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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