Can developers trust extensions downloaded for Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor? Researchers at Aqua Nautilus say they have found that attackers could easily impersonate popular ...

In recent days, it has been reported that several Visual Studio Code extensions are exploiting a vulnerability that allows the reuse of package names that have been deleted. This issue has raised ...

May 2022 edition of Microsoft’s open source code editor now alerts users to extensions that are no longer maintained or have been deprecated in favor of another extension. Microsoft’s Visual Studio ...

Developers using the "Insiders" build of the May 2024 Visual Studio Code update, bringing the open-source-based, cross-platform code editor to version 1.90, can now enjoy enhanced chat AI ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...

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Microsoft now lets Visual Studio Code users financially sponsor authors of their favorite extensions. "VS Code now allow users to sponsor their favorite extensions," the dev team said in announcing ...