A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero. Microsoft VSCode is a ...

Microsoft has removed two popular VSCode extensions, 'Material Theme – Free' and 'Material Theme Icons – Free,' from the Visual Studio Marketplace for allegedly containing malicious code. The two ...

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly pulled them and notifies users ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Code (VSCode) Marketplace contains thousands of malicious extensions that can easily spread due to the company’s lack of control. This was observed by Israeli security researchers ...

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 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 ...

Was experimenting with phan in a devcontainer in Visual Studio Code and noticed that the extension was last updated 2022. (having trouble getting it to work) ...