Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a ...

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 ...

Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply ...

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. VSCan | VSCode Extension ...

Sideloaded extensions are particularly vulnerable After confirming the behavior on VSCode, OX extended their investigation to other platforms, including Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor.