Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist ...

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners ...

Experts reveal Evelyn Stealer malware abusing VS Code extensions to steal developer credentials, browser data, and ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with ...

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...

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 ...

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing malware that can take screenshots, steal credentials, crypto wallets, and ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity firm Koi Security uncovers a new wave of the GlassWorm campaign, which hides malware in invisible Unicode code within VS Code extensions. The malware steals GitHub, Open VSX, and crypto ...

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