Extensions are a great way to customize your browser but you want to be careful when adding new ones due to the potential privacy and security risks they can pose.

Most extensions are installed from a dedicated market for the browser you use. One might think those extensions have been fully vetted and safe, yet Bleeping Computer reported on August 7, 2025, that ...

Cybercriminals are starting to target Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace, uploading three malicious Visual Studio extensions that Windows developers downloaded 46,600 times.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.