Over 450 malicious PyPI python packages were found installing malicious Chromium browser extensions to hijack cryptocurrency transactions made through browser-based crypto wallets and websites.

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

Microsoft's Jupyter extension also supports the pre-release scheme, which was introduced in the November 2021 update. Otherwise, the March 2022 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code ...

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million ...