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 ...

Suspicious VSCode extensions already exist AquaSec didn't just prove it's possible to mimic popular extensions on VSCode Marketplace but also found suspicious examples already uploaded to the ...

The extensions were discovered by security firm ReversingLabs , who reported them to Microsoft, who then removed them. We have reached out to the #VSCode marketplace team, & they have removed ...

Nine VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

VSCode Marketplace, a repository for Visual Studio Code (VSC) externsions, has poor security defenses, allowing threat actors to abuse it and distribute malicious code among the millions of its ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Check Point have discovered multiple malicious Visual Studio extensions sitting in Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace. These extensions, called “Theme Darcula dark ...