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Malicious VS Code Extension Linked to Theft of 3,800 GitHub Repositories

A reported software supply chain attack involving a malicious Visual Studio Code extension has exposed the growing security risks surrounding modern development environments. According to published ...
Digit

GitHub investigating cyberattack linked to malicious VS Code extension and leaked internal repositories

GitHub has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach incident after a threat group known as TeamPCP allegedly gained access to the company’s internal repositories and later attempted to ...
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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 in Microsoft’s marketplace. It wasn’t. That single installation gave ...
InfoWorld

GitHub admits major source code leak after 3,800 internal repositories breached

Microsoft’s GitHub has suffered what appears to be its biggest ever security breach after confirming that attackers exfiltrated code from around 3,800 of the company’s internal repositories. News of ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub investigates internal repositories breach claimed by TeamPCP

Update May 20, 04:17 EDT: GitHub has now confirmed the breach of ~3,800 internal repositories after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension. GitHub is investigating a breach of its ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...