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 ...

May 2022 edition of Microsoft’s open source code editor now alerts users to extensions that are no longer maintained or have been deprecated in favor of another extension.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

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To learn more about these extensions, continue reading. This extension has been developed by Tim Kmcel, and it does almost everything you can expect it to be done. From answering general questions to ...

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, ...

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 ...

This post explains how to use Copilot in Visual Studio using extension. GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant that offers autocomplete-style suggestions to help you code faster, is now available for ...

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 ...

A security researcher has released exploit code for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens by tricking users into clicking a ...

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 ...