Microsoft Virtual Studio Code is being targeted by North Korean hackers

The contagious interview campaign continues.

Malicious Microsoft VSCode AI extensions might have hit over 1.5 million users

More than 1.5 million people may have had their sensitive data exfiltrated to Chinese hackers through two malicious ...
SecurityWeek

North Korean Hackers Target macOS Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects

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

Contagious Interview turns VS Code into an attack vector

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

'Contagious Interview' Attack Now Delivers Backdoor Via VS Code

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

Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Fixes Paste Hangs, IME Bugs

Microsoft has released Windows Terminal Preview v1.24.10212.0 with bug fixes, IME compatibility improvements, security ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Copilot Studio Extension for VS Code Goes GA

Microsoft has released the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code to general availability, enabling teams to build, ...
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 ...

Winapp is Microsoft’s new command line utility for developers.

Microsoft is releasing Windows App Development CLI (winapp) in public preview today. The open-source utility is aimed at Windows app developers, to make it easier to work across multiple frameworks ...