Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...
A recent investigation by security researchers has revealed a troubling surge in malicious campaigns exploiting popular development tools, including VSCode extensions and npm packages. These campaigns ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Recent reports have uncovered a series of malicious extensions ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly ...
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 ...