An extension I used almost every day was bought by a new owner and loaded up with spyware. It happened in 2024, but Google ...

"Under New Management" keeps an eye on the Chrome Web Store, looking for new developer names that show up when extensions are sold off.

Google delisted the image conversion tool earlier this month, but not before it had likely been modifying thousands of users' ...

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...

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GlassWorm campaign used 72 malicious Open VSX extensions and infected 151 GitHub repositories, enabling stealth supply-chain attacks on developers.

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

How can an extension change hands with no oversight?

More fun than it should be, honestly.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...