Bleeping Computer

Malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions target devs, crypto community

Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply chain ...
Neowin

Senior Microsoft exec admits mistakenly removing VSCode extensions used by "millions"

Earlier today, we covered the incident of Microsoft Defender flagging the Winring0 driver inside PC monitoring and fan control apps as malicious. Although at first glance it may seem like an obvious ...
GIGAZINE

It has been revealed that some VSCode extensions have a malicious function that encrypts files and demands ransom

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) allows you to use extensions to make development more convenient. It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio ...
TechRadar

Hackers are using malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions to steal passwords

Cybersecurity researchers from Check Point have discovered multiple malicious Visual Studio extensions sitting in Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace. Combined, the three malware were downloaded 46,600 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Threat Actors Keep Weaponizing VS Code Extensions

Threat actors continue to probe Visual Studio Code's extension ecosystem, and a late November incident shows how quickly a trusted developer tool can be turned into a supply chain beachhead. In a ...
InfoWorld

Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces

Careless developers publishing Visual Studio extensions to two open marketplaces have been including access tokens and other secrets that can be exploited by threat actors, a security vendor has found ...
TechRadar

Developers targeted by malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions

Reversing Labs and Assaraf discover campaign targeting software and web3 devs Multiple packages were hiding weaponized code that deploys stage-two malware The malicious intent was very difficult to ...
GIGAZINE

VSCan can detect malicious VSCode extensions

A free diagnostic tool called ' VSCan ' has been released that checks the code of extensions released for Visual Studio Code (VScode) and checks for security issues. Enter the extension's name or ID ...