Dev Configs for Windows: From fresh install to IDE in one command

With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – ...
Martin Cid Magazine

GlassWorm hid invisible code in VS Code extensions for a year before its takedown

For more than a year, a self-propagating worm rode VS Code extensions, npm packages, and stolen developer credentials through ...

500 Poisoned Packages, Hundreds of Companies: TeamPCP’s Worm Just Reached GitHub

A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update, handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate approximately 3,800 of GitHub's internal source code repositories — everythi ...
techtimes

GitHub CISO Names Nx Console as Root of 3,800-Repo Breach: OpenAI, Grafana Also Hit

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 ...
SiliconANGLE

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

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 ...
The Hacker News

Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace. The extension in question is ...
Bleeping Computer

GlassWorm malware hits 400+ code repos on GitHub, npm, VSCode, OpenVSX

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

Contagious Interview: Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews

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 ...
GitHub

Python extension for Visual Studio Code

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 ...
heise online

VS Code: Python Environments Extension generally available

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 ...
CSOonline

Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace

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, ...