Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

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

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

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

The classic VS Code is great and all, but these specialized forks are better for certain programming tasks ...

A compromised Open VSX publisher account was used to distribute malicious extensions in a new GlassWorm supply chain attack.

Quantum computing has attracted attention for years, but for most developers it has felt distant and impractical. By making its development kit open source and integrating it with widely used tools ...

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

A fake VS Code extension posing as a Moltbot AI assistant installed ScreenConnect malware, giving attackers persistent remote ...

Two malicious extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. Both extensions are ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

A new VS Code extension called Nogic visualizes codebases as interactive graphs and drew strong interest on Hacker News. Commenters praised the concept for understanding large or unfamiliar codebases, ...