GlassWorm, a known malware, has put 73 harmful extensions into OpenVSX's registry. Hackers use it to steal developers' crypto ...

Socket has notified the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees the Open VSX marketplace, of the latest fraudulent additions, and Burckhardt expects that by now all 73 have been deleted.

VS Code is no longer just an IDE.

A malicious version of the Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) password manager was briefly distributed via the Node ...

Microsoft officially announced TypeScript 7.0 Beta on April 21, 2026. The company says TypeScript 7.0 is often 10 times faster than 6.0. The beta ships through @typescript/native-preview@beta and tsgo ...

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Install the NPM Package Version Bumper Extension for Visual Studio Code by running the following command, or follow one of the instructions below. $ code --install-extension jeffreylanters.npm-package ...

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 ...

A new malicious npm campaign using fake installation logs to hide malware activity has been identified by security researchers. The attacks, discovered by ReversingLabs, involve malicious packages ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...