Bleeping Computer

Malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions target devs, crypto community

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 chain ...
Bleeping Computer

VSCode Marketplace can be abused to host malicious extensions

Researchers have found it surprisingly easy to upload malicious Visual Studio Code extensions to the VSCode Marketplace, and discovered signs of threat actors already exploiting this weakness. Visual ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Threat Actors Keep Weaponizing VS Code Extensions

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 ...
GIGAZINE

It has been revealed that some VSCode extensions have a malicious function that encrypts files and demands ransom

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 ...
CSOonline

Verified, but vulnerable: Malicious extensions exploit IDE trust badges

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.” ...
GIGAZINE

VSCan can detect malicious VSCode extensions

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 ...
XDA Developers

I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...