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

Overview: Cloud IDEs support consistent work across devices and locations, enabling smooth collaboration.Real-time editing ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- BrowserTotal provides a secure extension marketplace that looks and feels just like the official vendor stores (e.g. Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons).

Researchers say the malware was in the repository for two weeks, advise precautions to defend against malicious packages.

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license. Microsoft maintains this repository publicly on GitHub, where anyone can clone, ...