Once trust is granted to the repository's author, a malicious app executes arbitrary commands on the victim's system with no ...

As part of the infamous Contagious Interview campaign, North Korean threat actors were seen abusing legitimate Microsoft ...

North Korean hackers target macOS developers with malware hidden in Visual Studio Code task configuration files.

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist ...

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners ...

Visual Studio is Microsoft's popular cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE), which recently received a bunch of AI capabilities through Visual Studio 2026. Historically, the IDE has ...

With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers can use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together and delegate work across local, background, and cloud agents. Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.107 (November 2025) to the general public. A major theme for this release is the enhancement of agents, introducing multi-agent orchestration and ...

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 ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

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