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 ...

Microsoft's text editor 'Visual Studio Code' has an extension marketplace, where users can easily install various extensions. A Reddit post pointed out that only Microsoft extensions can use special ...

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, ...

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 ...

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

With "vibe coding" taking over software development with AI-driven programming and other advanced functionality, you would think the Visual Studio Code Marketplace would be flooded with new extensions ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.