Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

Threat actors compromised the Open VSX Registry on January 30, 2026, pushing malicious updates to four trusted VS Code extensions with over 22,000 combined downloads. The attack targeted macOS ...

Ask any programming enthusiast about their preferred code editor, and you’ll probably hear the name VS Code in the conversation a couple of times, and for good reason. Its lightweight nature, coupled ...

A Hacker News commenter identifying as a VS Code team member said Workspace Trust is the intended security protection against repo-based attacks. The commenter acknowledged user experience issues and ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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