Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively ...
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A report that a fake VSCode extension was created and downloaded and that a flaw in the VSCode extension system that makes it easy to insert malicious code was also revealed

Microsoft's text editor 'Visual Studio Code (VSCode)' allows you to add functions and customize the appearance by introducing extensions. Security researchers released 'fake extensions that insert ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Devs Diss Visual Studio's AI

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Is Latest Microsoft Dev Tooling Weaponized by Threat Actors

Cybersecurity threat actors keep leveraging Microsoft development tooling as attack vectors. The latest incident was reported this month by Cyble, with one of the key takeaways of its report being: ...
The Hacker News

Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs

Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M ...
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 ...

VS Code: Python Environments Extension generally available

The new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to end the previous fragmentation and ensure a uniform workflow with Python ...

Python not working in Visual Studio Code Terminal

If Python is not working in Visual Studio Code Terminal, you receive Python is not recognized, or the script fails to execute, follow these solutions.