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Malicious AI-made extension with ransomware capabilities sneaks on to Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace - so devs beware

Malicious VS Code extension ‘susvsex’ acted as ransomware and used GitHub for command control Extension appeared AI-generated, with embedded decryption keys and suspicious metadata Microsoft removed ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Threat Actors Keep Weaponizing VS Code Extensions

Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident ...
Bleeping Computer

AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...