With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – including WSL and Ubuntu.

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 ongoing GlassWorm campaign has deployed a fresh wave of malicious Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions, many of which seem initially benign but later deploy self-replicating malware that can poison ...

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat. Visual Studio Code 1.117 is available for download. The ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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 ...

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Mac users often assume they're safer than everyone else, especially when they stick to official app stores and trusted tools. That sense of security is exactly what attackers like to exploit. Security ...

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 ...

Some developers thought they were installing a dark theme and an AI assistant on their VS Code. However, it turned out to be malware that stole their data. Researchers at Koi, a cybersecurity firm, ...