The executable, which comes in base64-encoded form, is decoded by the PowerShell script to connect with a secondary server at myaunet [.]su to download and run XMRig, a Monero cryptocurrency miner.

Microsoft has removed two popular VSCode extensions, 'Material Theme - Free' and 'Material Theme Icons - Free,' from the Visual Studio Marketplace for allegedly containing malicious code.

The April 2021 update to Java on Visual Studio Code mainly improves debugging and testing. In VS Code, Java tooling is provided via various extensions that are bundled in the Java Extension Pack ...