VSCode extensions pulled over security risks, but millions of users have already installed

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

A report that a fake VSCode extension was created and downloaded and that a flaw in the VSCode extension system that makes it easy to insert malicious code was also revealed

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 ...

VSCode market struck by huge influx of malicious WhiteCobra extensions - so be warned

Last week, BleepingComputer reported that researchers discovered two dozen malicious extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace and the Open VSX registry. The Visual Studio Marke ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I don't code, but VSCode is still my favorite app

When you hear VSCode, programming is probably one of the first things that come to mind. That’s a fair enough reputation as developers do seem to live in the app. But I don’t code, and it’s still an ...
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.” ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio Code Gets HDInsight Tools for Big Data Analytics

Microsoft announced HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, letting coders do Big Data analytics right from within the cross-platform, open source code editor. Specifically, ...