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Hackers Steal 3,800 GitHub Repos Through Fake VS Code Extension

GitHub says hackers stole about 3,800 internal repos after a poisoned VS Code extension hit an employee device ...

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 ...
Morning Overview on MSNOpinion

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 ...
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.
Opinion

The GitHub hack was one plugin away from being your problem too

An infected VS Code extension compromised around 3,800 repositories owned by GitHub. And that's something that all developers around the globe must be wary of. It's not just any random user whose ...
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 ...