Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a source code editor published by Microsoft and used by many ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft's text editor 'Visual Studio Code (VSCode)' allows you to add functions and customize the appearance by introducing extensions. Security researchers released 'fake extensions that insert ...

It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace , a web store for VSCode extensions.

A recent investigation by security researchers has revealed a troubling surge in malicious campaigns exploiting popular development tools, including VSCode extensions and npm packages. These campaigns ...

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.

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 researcher Amit Assaraf published a new blog post outlining how he had observed dozens of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions on the VSCode marketplace designed to download well ...