A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

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 ...

In December 2025, the GlassWorm supply chain malware campaign emerged again, affecting both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX platforms. This episode involved 24 extensions posing ...

Google has launched an official Colab extension for Visual Studio Code, aiming to bridge the gap between local development and powerful cloud computing for AI and machine learning. The new tool allows ...

VS Code has become the top choice for web developers. It’s been around only 8 years but has grown a lot. This is thanks to its huge library of extensions and how it boosts productivity. VS Code’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract: Achieving web accessibility is essential to building inclusive digital experiences. However, accessibility issues are often identified only after a website has been fully developed, making ...

I wanted to bring attention to a recent security issue that affected the official Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension, CVE-2024-49049. This vulnerability allowed unprivileged users on the remote ...

Thank you very much for providing and maintaining this extremely helpful remote extension. I wanted to bring attention to a recent security issue that affected the official Visual Studio Code Remote - ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...