Eclipse Foundation to require pre-publish security checks for Open VSX extensions to reduce VS Code supply-chain risk.

Cybersecurity researchers from Socket’s Threat Research team have identified a developer-compromise supply chain attack ...

An official Model Context Protocol extension Anthropic's Claude can now present the interfaces of other applications within its chat window, thanks to an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

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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 ...

Modern IDEs are evolving into AI-powered hubs for coding, content, and productivity. Get your scorecards out, we have yet another update in the ever expanding world of code editors. The barrier to ...

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Google has launched an official Colab extension for Visual Studio Code, aiming to bridge the gap between local development and powerful cloud computing for AI and machine learning. The new tool allows ...

Cybersecurity firm Koi Security uncovers a new wave of the GlassWorm campaign, which hides malware in invisible Unicode code within VS Code extensions. The malware steals GitHub, Open VSX, and crypto ...

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 ...

A self-propagating worm is targeting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions in a complex supply chain attack that has infected 35,800 developer machines so far with techniques the likes of which ...