Two malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions were found deploying in-development ransomware, exposing critical gaps in Microsoft's review process. The extensions, named "ahban.shiba" and ...

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly pulled them and notifies users The developer criticized Microsoft's move, saying they were never consulted ...

VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before extensions auto-update to newer versions when automatic updates are enabled.

A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme ...

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 ...

Visual Studio Code is a code editor that is completely free and open-source. It has been developed by Microsoft and is highly regarded by developers due to its lightweight, fast, and extensible design ...

Developers across popular integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor are at risk of running malicious extensions marked as “verified.” ...