AI-based VS Code forks recommended unclaimed extensions, allowing malicious uploads in Open VSX and risking developer systems ...

Threat actors continue to probe Visual Studio Code's extension ecosystem, and a late November incident shows how quickly a trusted developer tool can be turned into a supply chain beachhead. In a ...

GlassWorm, a self-propagating malware targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX marketplace, have apparently continued despite statements that the threat had been contained.

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, ...

A new campaign involving malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions has exposed a loophole in the VS Code Marketplace that allows threat actors to reuse names of previously removed packages.

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...