Eclipse Foundation to require pre-publish security checks for Open VSX extensions to reduce VS Code supply-chain risk.

A new VS Code extension called Nogic visualizes codebases as interactive graphs and drew strong interest on Hacker News. Commenters praised the concept for understanding large or unfamiliar codebases, ...

A fake VS Code extension posing as a Moltbot AI assistant installed ScreenConnect malware, giving attackers persistent remote ...

A Microsoft Visual Studio Code extension for Moltbot turns out to actually deliver a malware payload to unsuspecting users.

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

Microsoft outlines new AI reliability, agentic coding, and Copilot improvements coming to Visual Studio 2026, with a focus on ...

Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China.

Mac users often assume they're safer than everyone else, especially when they stick to official app stores and trusted tools. That sense of security is exactly what attackers like to exploit. Security ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Socket’s Threat Research team have identified a developer-compromise supply chain attack ...

Attackers can abuse VS Code configuration files for RCE when a GitHub Codespaces user opens a repository or pull request.

In a a robust Hacker News thread sparked by Jamf Threat Labs research, a VS Code team member defended the editor's Workspace ...