Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...

Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

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

The contagious interview campaign continues.

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 ...

Introducing ArkRegex: a revolutionary drop-in for JavaScript's RegExp that ensures type safety in regular expressions without ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syncfusion®, Inc., the enterprise technology partner of choice, today announced Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 4. The release includes ...

Visual Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) of choice for many users due to its cross-platform development capabilities, boatload of functionalities, and strong support from ...

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 ...

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Microsoft is fundamentally restructuring how it delivers its flagship development environment, abandoning its traditional multi-year release cycle for a faster, annual cadence. Under the new “Modern ...