Defending Your IDE — Protecting Against Malicious or Compromised Visual Studio Extensions

The New Front Line in Cyberattacks Over the last year, developers have emerged as a key target of modern cyberattacks, many of which have been high-profile and highly impactful. Most recently, in May 2026, GitHub confirmed that attackers gained access to approximately 3,800 internal repositories after a malicious VS Code extension, Nx Console v18.95.0 , compromised an employee device. The incident…