AI coding assistants have long since moved beyond autocomplete. Agentic IDEs now read your project, plan multi-step changes, call tools, install libraries, and quietly edit your codebase. To support that workflow, tools like Claude Code include support for third-party plugin marketplaces. Connect a marketplace. Enable a plugin. Your agent gains new “skills” for tests, infra, migrations, and dependency management. OpenAI has adopted a similar pattern for tools, so to be clear, this is not a
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In September 2024, researchers observed an attack using the notorious SmokeLoader malware to target companies in Taiwan, including those in manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, and other sectors. SmokeLoader is well-known for its versatility and advanced evasion techniques, and its modular design allows it to perform a wide range of attacks. While SmokeLoader primarily serves as a downloader to deliver other malware, in this case, it carries out the attack itself by downloading pl
