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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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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 ...