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 ...

Threat actors continue to probe Visual Studio Code's extension ecosystem, and a late November incident shows how quickly a trusted developer tool can be turned into a supply chain beachhead. In a ...

GlassWorm, a self-propagating malware targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX marketplace, have apparently continued despite statements that the threat had been contained.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a self-propagating worm that spreads via Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX Registry and the Microsoft Extension Marketplace, ...

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 ...

A self-propagating worm is targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions in a complex supply chain attack that has infected 35,800 developer machines so far with techniques the likes of which ...

The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a loophole in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that enables attackers to reuse deleted extension names, potentially allowing malware to ...