It's more than just a code editor.

In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...

All of the execution paths identified by its research team are designed to trigger during the Next.js devs' normal working ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

The hackers trick victims into accessing GitHub or GitLab repositories that are opened using Visual Studio Code. Once the repositories are opened in VS Code, the victim is prompted to trust the ...

The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a ...

Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code. As a result, developers now have a more structured way to build and manage Copilot ...