Developers are frustrated that Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant often overrides their explicit “no” command and executes code changes anyway.

A sophisticated malware operation targeting software developers has expanded its reach by exploiting trusted extension ecosystems, with security researchers uncovering dozens of malicious packages ...

The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code editor and terminal.

GlassWorm campaign used 72 malicious Open VSX extensions and infected 151 GitHub repositories, enabling stealth supply-chain attacks on developers.