A "coordinated developer-targeting campaign" is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish ...

Security researchers revealed two malicious VS Code extensions exfiltrated code snippets, API keys, and proprietary algorithms from 1.5 million developers to servers in China while masquerading as AI ...

I am finding very strange behavior when iterating with the debugger in VSCode (Javascript) where I fix a bug and re-run the app. It gets so bad that when I try an immediate function call in the debug ...

2025-07-09 11:41:13.302 [info] [Shared] Installing extension: firefox-devtools.vscode-firefox-debug {"isMachineScoped":false,"installPreReleaseVersion":false,"pinned ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious extensions in the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that are designed to deploy ransomware that's under development to its users. The ...

Abstract: Vulnerable web browser extensions can be used by an attacker to steal users' credentials and lure users into leaking sensitive information to unauthorized parties. Current browser security ...

Abstract: We propose MJBlocker, a lightweight and run-time malicious JavaScript Extensions (JSEs) blocker for preventing them from hurting user security. MJBlocker can identify and block malicious ...