Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Lazarus group’s Contagious Interview campaign abuses Visual Studio Code via malicious Git repositories Attackers deliver JavaScript payloads on macOS, enabling persistent data harvesting and C2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

GitHub Copilot continues to evolve in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, offering developers increasingly intelligent, context-aware tools that go far beyond basic autocomplete. The latest ...

JetBrains's AI Assistant is no longer limited to its own IDEs. It is now available as an extension for VS Code. JetBrains has now made its AI Assistant available as an extension for Microsoft's ...

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem ...