PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 4, 2023 – Metabob announced today a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that the company says ...

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) allows you to use extensions to make development more convenient. It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio ...

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly pulled them and notifies users ...

VSCode Marketplace, a repository for Visual Studio Code (VSC) externsions, has poor security defenses, allowing threat actors to abuse it and distribute malicious code among the millions of its users, ...

The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...

A suspicious Visual Studio Code extension with file-encrypting and data-stealing behavior successfully bypassed marketplace ...

Reversing Labs and Assaraf discover campaign targeting software and web3 devs Multiple packages were hiding weaponized code that deploys stage-two malware The malicious intent was very difficult to ...

A remote access trojan dubbed SleepyDuck, and disguised as the well-known Solidity extension in the Open VSX open-source registry, uses an Ethereum smart contract to establish a communication channel ...

Microsoft has released a host of improvements and fixes for the Python extension for its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), as well as new improvements for Java on VS Code.