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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 ...

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.
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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 ...
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Warning to developers: Stay away from these 10 VSCode extensions

Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a ...
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Cursor’s autorun lets hackers execute arbitrary code

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