Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M installs.

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found 24 malicious extensions in Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX Registry deploying Lumma Stealer and other malware The attack targeted cryptocurrency holders and developers, with ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...