In a a robust Hacker News thread sparked by Jamf Threat Labs research, a VS Code team member defended the editor's Workspace Trust model as the primary safeguard against repo-based malware -- while ...

Eclipse Foundation to require pre-publish security checks for Open VSX extensions to reduce VS Code supply-chain risk.

A compromised Open VSX publisher account was used to distribute malicious extensions in a new GlassWorm supply chain attack.

A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems.

Two malicious VS Code extensions have exfiltrated code snippets, API keys, and proprietary algorithms from 1.5 million ...