AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace.
GitHub

This is a simple game where you are a red square running from a green square. made with python in vscode

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. For this to work you need to have pygame installed. you can see how to install pygame by looking up a ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious crypto-stealing VSCode extensions resurface on OpenVSX

A threat actor called TigerJack is constantly targeting developers with malicious extensions published on Microsoft's Visual Code (VSCode) marketplace and OpenVSX registry to steal cryptocurrency and ...
GitHub

Gemini Code Assist in VSCode slows down rapidly after starting, becoming unusable

(Hint: "Report Extension Issue on Github" command will fill these out for you.) - This does NOT work, Gemini Code Assist tells me it can't file a report for me on Github and then goes on to give me a ...