A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero. Microsoft VSCode is a ...

Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs. Visual Studio Code (VSCode ... security tools (EDRs) do not detect this activity (as we ...

Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a ...

Telling you that Visual Studio Code uses the Electron shell, Node.js, TypeScript, and the Language Server Protocol doesn’t do ... extensions. Unfortunately, the Python extensions, which need ...

These extensions, called “Theme Darcula dark”, python-vscode”, and “prettiest java” were each pretending to be useful for Visual Studio Code developers ... here's what you need to ...