Cybernews

Unprecedented GitHub hacking spree: “security research” AI bot compromises major repos from Microsoft, Datadog, and others

Five major GitHub repositories targeted by the autonomous AI bot “hackerbot-claw” were compromised through various injection ...
insideHPC

Metabob Launches New AI Generative VSCode Extension

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 4, 2023 – Metabob announced today a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that the company says ...
Bleeping Computer

VSCode Marketplace can be abused to host malicious extensions

Researchers have found it surprisingly easy to upload malicious Visual Studio Code extensions to the VSCode Marketplace, and discovered signs of threat actors already exploiting this weakness. Visual ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme ...
CSOonline

Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace

A suspicious Visual Studio Code extension with file-encrypting and data-stealing behavior successfully bypassed marketplace review and entered the developer ecosystem. In a suspected test effort, ...