diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching/NugetPackageRestorer.cs b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching/NugetPackageRestorer.cs
index 3895db3e4d40..f30760981f3a 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching/NugetPackageRestorer.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching/NugetPackageRestorer.cs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Net.Http;
-using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using System.Threading;
@@ -264,7 +263,7 @@ private void RestoreProjects(IEnumerable<string> projects, out ConcurrentBag<Dep
 
             var isWindows = fileContent.UseWindowsForms || fileContent.UseWpf;
 
-            var sync = new object();
+            var sync = new Lock();
             var projectGroups = projects.GroupBy(Path.GetDirectoryName);
             Parallel.ForEach(projectGroups, new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = DependencyManager.Threads }, projectGroup =>
             {
@@ -346,7 +345,7 @@ private void RestoreProjects(IEnumerable<string> projects, out ConcurrentBag<Dep
             compilationInfoContainer.CompilationInfos.Add(("Fallback nuget restore", notYetDownloadedPackages.Count.ToString()));
 
             var successCount = 0;
-            var sync = new object();
+            var sync = new Lock();
 
             Parallel.ForEach(notYetDownloadedPackages, new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = DependencyManager.Threads }, package =>
             {
diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Options.cs b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Options.cs
index 39c363a77531..64d7535ee2a1 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Options.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Options.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
+using System;
 using System.IO;
 using Semmle.Util;
-using Semmle.Util.Logging;
-using Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching;
-using System;
 
 namespace Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone
 {
diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Program.cs b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Program.cs
index fc13b774f4f1..475847be5765 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Program.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone/Program.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using Semmle.Util.Logging;
-using Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.DependencyFetching;
-
 namespace Semmle.Extraction.CSharp.Standalone
 {
     public class Program
diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp/Extractor/ExtractionContext.cs b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp/Extractor/ExtractionContext.cs
index 619eb9953471..262475ca5a16 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp/Extractor/ExtractionContext.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Extraction.CSharp/Extractor/ExtractionContext.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading;
 using Semmle.Util.Logging;
 using CompilationInfo = (string key, string value);
 
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ public ExtractionContext(string cwd, string[] args, string outputPath, IEnumerab
         // to handle pathological cases.
         private const int maxErrors = 1000;
 
-        private readonly object mutex = new object();
+        private readonly Lock mutex = new();
 
         public void Message(Message msg)
         {
diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Util/Logging/PidStreamWriter.cs b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Util/Logging/PidStreamWriter.cs
index 7d9599298d65..cf4d8be52e52 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Util/Logging/PidStreamWriter.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Semmle.Util/Logging/PidStreamWriter.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using System.IO;
-using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Threading;
 
 namespace Semmle.Util.Logging
 {
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ public override void WriteLine(string? format, params object?[] args)
             WriteLine(format is null ? format : string.Format(format, args));
         }
 
-        private readonly object mutex = new object();
+        private readonly Lock mutex = new();
     }
 }
diff --git a/csharp/extractor/Testrunner/Testrunner.cs b/csharp/extractor/Testrunner/Testrunner.cs
index 6280a8c1be2a..d772ca903f7a 100644
--- a/csharp/extractor/Testrunner/Testrunner.cs
+++ b/csharp/extractor/Testrunner/Testrunner.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 /// </summary>
 public class Testrunner
 {
-    private static readonly object ConsoleLock = new();
+    private static readonly Lock ConsoleLock = new();
 
     private static readonly ManualResetEvent Finished = new(false);