Microsoft ’s Visual Studio Code, installed as a Snap package on a Linux device, has a strange bug that keeps all the files users deleted, clogging up hard drives as a result, leading to a myriad of ...

The reason for this is Snap – a Linux application packaging format – creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code ...

OpenAI has launched a new Codex desktop app for macOS that lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, shifting software development from writing code to managing autonomous tasks and ...

Those project files you deleted might not actually be deleted.

A fake VS Code extension posing as a Moltbot AI assistant installed ScreenConnect malware, giving attackers persistent remote ...

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

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

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners on developer systems.

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A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated ...

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