Fake VS Code alerts on GitHub spread malware to developers

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

TypeScript 6.0 Ships as Final JavaScript-Based Release, Clears Path for Go-Native 7.0

Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version built on the original JavaScript codebase, with three post-RC changes and a wave of deprecations designed to ready codebases for the ...

Microsoft updates VS Code with new themes and adjustable AI reasoning in version 1.113

VS Code 1.113 adds new themes, AI reasoning controls, and nested subagents, improving workflows and customization for ...
The Hacker News

Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks

Open VSX bug misread scanner failures as clean results, letting malicious VS Code extensions go live before patch in v0.32.0.
InfoWorld

New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

The newly observed malware abuses VS Code’s “runOn:folderOpen” feature to execute automatically from trusted projects, ...

A simple coding mistake is exposing API keys across thousands of websites

A large-scale study has revealed that websites are unintentionally exposing API keys tied to services like AWS, Stripe, and OpenAI, with most leaks traced back to publicly accessible JavaScript files.