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A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update on the morning of May 18, 2026. That single action handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate approximately 3,800 of ...

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on Microsoft's official Visual Studio Marketplace for just 18 minutes on May 18 ...

Hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of GitHub Inc.’s internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX repository that are linked to a persistent information-stealing campaign dubbed ...

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, repositories, and extensions on GitHub, npm, and VSCode/OpenVSX extensions. Evidence ...

Microsoft Defender Experts has observed the Contagious Interview campaign, a sophisticated social engineering operation active since at least December 2022. Microsoft continues to detect activity ...

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

Python may not work in the VS Code terminal due to several reasons: the Python executable path is missing from your system’s PATH environment variable, the wrong Python interpreter is selected in VS ...

As Microsoft announced, the Python Environments Extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available after a one-year preview phase. It is intended to make the workflow for managing Python ...

A suspicious Visual Studio Code extension with file-encrypting and data-stealing behavior successfully bypassed marketplace review and entered the developer ecosystem. In a suspected test effort, ...

A China-aligned threat actor known as TA415 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting the U.S. government, think tanks, and academic organizations utilizing U.S.-China economic-themed ...