Weekly cybersecurity recap covering emerging threats, fast-moving attacks, critical flaws, and key security developments you need to track this week.

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

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 ...

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing malware that can take screenshots, steal credentials, crypto wallets, and ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

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The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Crashes occur during the initial IDE startup when loading extensions or caches, immediately after installing updates (e.g., .NET upgrades or Visual Studio patches), or during specific actions such as ...