Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...
Microsoft

New Clickfix variant ‘CrashFix’ deploying Python Remote Access Trojan

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.
TechRadar

Linux users report Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Snap package isn't actually deleting files

VS Code Snap package bug on Linux keeps deleted files, clogging hard drives Snap creates separate local Trash folders per version, compounding storage issues No fix yet; users advised to install VS ...
IEEE

EISPY2D: An Open-Source Python Library for the Development and Comparison of Algorithms in Two-Dimensional Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems

Abstract: Microwave Imaging is a key technique for reconstructing the electrical properties of inaccessible media, relying on algorithms to solve the associated Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering ...
The Hacker News

Malicious VS Code AI Extensions with 1.5 Million Installs Steal Developer Source Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...