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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace , a web store for VSCode extensions.