Visual Studio Magazine

Claude Opus 4.5 Lands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub Copilot users can now select Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model in chat across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Threat Actors Keep Weaponizing VS Code Extensions

Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident ...
Bleeping Computer

VSCode Marketplace can be abused to host malicious extensions

Researchers have found it surprisingly easy to upload malicious Visual Studio Code extensions to the VSCode Marketplace, and discovered signs of threat actors already exploiting this weakness. Visual ...
EDN

An Easy solution to Compile the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ Code using VSCode and Pico SDK in ...

Raspberry Pi Pico is a cute piece of hardware. It has a powerful dual-core RP2040 microcontroller that offers 2MB (up to 16MB) Flash and 264K SRAM memories. But what truly sets the Pico apart is its ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious crypto-stealing VSCode extensions resurface on OpenVSX

A threat actor called TigerJack is constantly targeting developers with malicious extensions published on Microsoft's Visual Code (VSCode) marketplace and OpenVSX registry to steal cryptocurrency and ...
CSOonline

TigerJack’s malicious VSCode extensions mine, steal, and stay hidden

The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...