Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to infect developer machines with stealer malware. The VS Code ...

A new worm is infecting NPM packages en masse and stealing credentials. The code of the malware contains the identifier “SHA1HULUD,” which is why security analysts are calling it “Shai-Hulud 2.0.” ...

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A malicious npm package named Fezbox has been found using an unusual technique to conceal harmful code. The package employs a QR code as part of its obfuscation strategy, ultimately aiming to steal ...

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...

Dozens of npm libraries, including a color library with over 2 million downloads a week, have been replaced with novel self-replicating credential-stealing code in yet another wave of a supply chain ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

Security experts have warned that a newly discovered supply chain attack targeting npm packages is still active and may already have impacted 10% of cloud environments. On Monday, a threat actor ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

With all the turmoil at Windsurf, Claude Code might now be the tool you need to transform your AI coding workflow, cutting hours of manual effort into mere minutes. Sounds too good to be true? Enter ...