Malicious AI extensions on VSCode Marketplace steal developer data

Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On: Testing Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code on Text-to-Website Generation

A hands-on comparison shows how Cursor, Windsurf, and Visual Studio Code approach text-to-website generation differently once ...
Dark Reading

DPRK Actors Deploy VS Code Tunnels for Remote Hacking

A spear-phishing campaign tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) uses trusted Microsoft infrastructure to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Buzz About VS Code Extension for Codebase Visualization

A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its ...
GitHub

Visual Studio Code PDF Viewer

This extension runs the latest pdf.js underneath. A demo of their editor (hence ours) can be found here. Most extensions currently in the marketplace have problems too deep to fix. These problems ...
GitHub

CodeSonar Extension for Visual Studio Code

This extension from CodeSecure provides access to static code analysis results from a CodeSonar hub inside Visual Studio Code. You will also need access to a CodeSonar hub running CodeSonar 7.1p0 or ...