Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China.

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

A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its ...

Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real ...

The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools ...

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I updated VSCode stable yesterday and the Python extension pack today. Since this morning, I can't debug Python files in a Pixi environment using the Python Environments and Pixi Code extensions. I'm ...

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 ...

Developers across popular integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor are at risk of running malicious extensions marked as “verified.” ...

2025-05-15 12:29:07.823 [error] [Shared] [/home/mmaushar/.vscode/extensions/github.copilot-chat-0.24.1]: This extension is using the API proposals ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has quickly become one of the most popular code editors among developers—and for good reason. It’s fast, lightweight, and highly customizable. But what truly sets it apart ...