The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

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BlackBox AI, a popular VS Code coding assistant, has a critical indirect prompt injection vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this to gain remote root access to a user’s computer.

Choosing an AI assistant for your business in 2026 isn’t as simple as picking the most popular one. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini have each matured into serious ...

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors ...

VS Code-integrated configuration files are automatically executed in Codespaces when the user opens a repository or pull request. The automatic execution of VS Code-integrated configuration files when ...

If VS Code freezes on open, the notebook is often too heavy to render because outputs are saved inside the .ipynb (dataframes, logs, plots, HTML). Clearing outputs reduces the file to cells only, ...

The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a ...

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 ...