GitHub, the world’s largest code hosting platform used by over 100 million developers, has confirmed a data breach, and the attackers are selling the stolen data online. The company first acknowledged ...

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer ...

In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. As of writing, ...

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

A threat actor named WhiteCobra has been targeting VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf users by planting 24 malicious extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace and the Open VSX registry. The campaign is ...

This repo provides a step-by-step guide and a template for setting up a Python 🐍 development environment with VScode and Docker 🐳. Docker is an amazing tool, but it has some learning curve. This ...

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero. Microsoft VSCode is a ...

Welcome to the brave new world of modern, remote development in your browser. Let's get started with VSCode.dev. The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the ...

There are many ways to write, compile, and debug your C/C++ code. One popular option is to use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which allows you to do all of those in one single program.

The Socket Research Team has identified a malicious Python package named ‘fabrice’, which poses as the popular ‘fabric’ SSH automation library and steals AWS credentials from unsuspecting developers.