In a a robust Hacker News thread sparked by Jamf Threat Labs research, a VS Code team member defended the editor's Workspace Trust model as the primary safeguard against repo-based malware -- while ...

Overview: TypeScript is widely used in large projects because its typing works better with AI coding assistants and reduces bugs.JavaScript remains best for sma ...

North Korea is doubling down on a familiar playbook by weaponizing trust in open-source software and developer workflows. The ...

Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...

VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they ...

Security researchers are increasingly citing Visual Studio Code as part of supply chain attacks on developers. Researchers at Jamf recently identified ...

As part of the infamous Contagious Interview campaign, North Korean threat actors were seen abusing legitimate Microsoft Visual Studio Code in their attacks.

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

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 ...

The malware uses invisible Unicode characters to hide its code and blockchain-based infrastructure to prevent takedowns. Visual Studio developers are targeted with a self-propagating worm in a ...