Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, ...

AI-based VS Code forks recommended unclaimed extensions, allowing malicious uploads in Open VSX and risking developer systems ...

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 ...

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, ...

Threat actors continue to probe Visual Studio Code's extension ecosystem, and a late November incident shows how quickly a trusted developer tool can be turned into a supply chain beachhead. In a ...

Researchers found 24 malicious extensions in Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX Registry deploying Lumma Stealer and other malware The attack targeted cryptocurrency holders and developers, with ...

A fourth wave of the "GlassWorm" campaign is targeting macOS developers with malicious VSCode/OpenVSX extensions that deliver ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Check Point have discovered multiple malicious Visual Studio extensions sitting in Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace. Combined, the three malware were downloaded 46,600 ...

Careless developers publishing Visual Studio extensions to two open marketplaces have been including access tokens and other secrets that can be exploited by threat actors, a security vendor has found ...

A free diagnostic tool called ' VSCan ' has been released that checks the code of extensions released for Visual Studio Code (VScode) and checks for security issues. Enter the extension's name or ID ...