Bleeping Computer

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...
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A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain

Visual Studio Code (or one of its many forks) is used by a huge number of developers, and the thing that makes it worth using isn't really the editor at all. It's the extensions which make it ...
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 ...
The Next Web

GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

GitHub confirmed that the cybercrime group TeamPCP exfiltrated roughly 3,800 internal code repositories after compromising an employee device through a poisoned VS Code extension. The Microsoft-owned ...