Malicious AI extensions on VSCode Marketplace steal developer data

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

DPRK Actors Deploy VS Code Tunnels for Remote Hacking

A spear-phishing campaign tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) uses trusted Microsoft infrastructure to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Copilot Studio Extension for VS Code Goes GA

Microsoft has released the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code to general availability, enabling teams to build, version, review, and deploy Copilot Studio agents using standard software ...

Microsoft Virtual Studio Code is being targeted by North Korean hackers

The contagious interview campaign continues.
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code adds support for agent skills

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks.