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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 ...

VSCode market struck by huge influx of malicious WhiteCobra extensions - so be warned

The researchers are calling the threat actor WhiteCobra.

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 News

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 safely browse and edit code regardless of where it came from or who wrote it.
InfoWorld

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 ...
CSO Online

Cursor’s autorun lets hackers execute arbitrary code

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

Metabob Launches New AI Generative VSCode Extension

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 4, 2023 – Metabob announced today a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that the company says ...