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Malicious VS Code extensions resurface, stealing GitHub credentials and crypto wallets

Developers will have to contend with a dormant turned active malicious code on Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions, which ...

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

A White House official told the Associated Press and USA Today that the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Trump’s Democratic ...
The Hacker News

Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware Capabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities ...
InfoWorld

How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code — and what it says about open source security

Weeks after being declared eradicated, GlassWorm is again infesting open source extensions using the same invisible Unicode ...

GitHub announces Agent HQ - the control tower for every coding agent

Agentic AI is here, and GitHub has unveiled Agent HQ, its boldest re-architecture since Copilot’s launch. The company wants ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's VS Code 1.45 is out: GitHub integration plus JavaScript debugger update

Microsoft has released version 1.45 of its Visual Studio Code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux with updates for its JavaScript debugger, TypeScript improvements, faster syntax highlighting, as well ...
Visual Studio Magazine

As GitHub Quits Atom for VS Code, GitLab Revamps Web IDE (Based on VS Code)

The reach of Microsoft's super-popular, open source-based Visual Studio Code editor is still expanding, now supplying the tech for two of the most prominent code repository platforms, GitHub and ...