Visual Studio Extensions Revisited: Building, Publishing, and Hunting Malicious VSIXs
Original text: “Visual Studio Extensions Revisited” — MDSec Research (research by Dominic Chell), MDSec (28/05/2026). Code, tables and figures below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
Three years after their original work on VS Code extensions for red-team initial access, MDSec revisits the larger sibling — Visual Studio proper — and finds the…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/05/visual-studio-extensions-revisited-malicious-vsix/
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