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

Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code. As a result, developers now have a more structured way to build and manage Copilot ...

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 ...

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing malware that can take screenshots, steal credentials, crypto wallets, and ...

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Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

The threat actor skill floor may soon lower as vibe coded ransomware has seemingly been published as an extension for Microsoft's AI code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code). John Tuckner, founder of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced the first preview version of Visual Studio 2026, which is available from a new Insiders channel that replaces the old Visual Studio Preview channel. “Visual Studio 2026 ...