A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme ...
Two malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions were found deploying in-development ransomware, exposing critical gaps in Microsoft's review process. The extensions, named "ahban.shiba" and ...
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 ...
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 ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly ...
Earlier today, we covered the incident of Microsoft Defender flagging the Winring0 driver inside PC monitoring and fan control apps as malicious. Although at first glance it may seem like an obvious ...
The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...
Two VSCode extensions exfiltrated sensitive user data to Chinese servers ChatGPT – 中文版 and ChatMoss had over 1.5 million installs combined Extensions used hidden iframes, commands, and SDKs to steal ...
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 ...