Eclipse Foundation to require pre-publish security checks for Open VSX extensions to reduce VS Code supply-chain risk.

Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...

A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its ...

Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

Many have run out of disk space entirely ...

A Microsoft Visual Studio Code extension for Moltbot turns out to actually deliver a malware payload to unsuspecting users.

Attackers can abuse VS Code configuration files for RCE when a GitHub Codespaces user opens a repository or pull request.

Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China.

Cybersecurity researchers from Socket’s Threat Research team have identified a developer-compromise supply chain attack ...

VS Code snippets and keybinding-based editor.action.insertSnippet commands can replicate the core behavior of unmaintained extensions such as htmltagwrap. Different approaches -- custom extensions, ...

Mac users often assume they're safer than everyone else, especially when they stick to official app stores and trusted tools. That sense of security is exactly what attackers like to exploit. Security ...