XDA Developers on MSN

A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain

Microsoft has had a VS Code extension for a long time, and it finally came back to bite them.
Morning Overview on MSN

Hackers just walked off with 3,800 of GitHub’s internal code repositories — smuggled out by a single poisoned plugin a GitHub developer trusted

Somewhere inside GitHub, a developer installed a Visual Studio Code extension. It looked like any other productivity plugin ...
Windows Report

GitHub Confirms Breach After Malicious VS Code Extension Exposed 3,800 Repositories

GitHub confirmed a breach affecting about 3,800 internal repositories after an employee installed a malicious VS Code ...
Infosecurity Magazine

GitHub Breach Traced to Malicious 'Nx Console' VS Code Extension

A threat actor compromised an Nx developer and posed as a legitimate maintainer to publish a malicious extension on Visual ...

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension - SiliconANGLE ...

GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

GitHub, the world's biggest code repository and DevOps platform, fell victim to a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) ...

GitHub Investigates Major Hack Claim as TeamPCP Offers 4,000 Private Code Repositories for Sale

GitHub is investigating an alleged breach after TeamPCP claimed access to nearly 4,000 private repositories, though no impact ...
Developer Tech

Microsoft moves engineers from Claude Code to GitHub Copilot CLI

Microsoft is reportedly ending most internal use of Claude Code and directing engineers to move their workflows to GitHub ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...