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'WhiteCobra' floods VSCode market with crypto-stealing extensions

A threat actor named WhiteCobra has targeting VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf users by planting 24 malicious extensions in the ...

This 'critical' Cursor security flaw could expose your code to malware - how to fix it

A feature being disabled by default could leave users and their organizations vulnerable to commands that run automatically.
The Hacker News3d

Cursor AI Code Editor Flaw Enables Silent Code Execution via Malicious Repositories

Cursor is an AI-powered fork of Visual Studio Code, which supports a feature called Workspace Trust to allow developers to ...
CSO Online4d

Cursor’s autorun lets hackers execute arbitrary code

By default, malicious repositories run automatically when a folder is opened, putting developer machines and sensitive ...
Visual Studio Magazine11mon

VS Code Is Latest Microsoft Dev Tooling Weaponized by Threat Actors

Cybersecurity threat actors keep leveraging Microsoft development tooling as attack vectors. The latest incident was reported this month by Cyble, with one of the key takeaways of its report being: ...
InfoWorld1y

How to run R in Visual Studio Code

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...