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) ...
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GitHub just confirmed hackers broke into its own code through a poisoned coding tool — slipping in on a developer’s laptop without anyone noticing for days

Sometime in early 2025, an attacker slipped malicious code into a Visual Studio Code extension, and a GitHub employee ...

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 ...
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Hackers infiltrate GitHub by compromising employee device

GitHub traced the breach to a malicious version of a Visual Studio Code extension, underscoring the threat of hackers ...
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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 ...

Inside the GitHub Breach: The suspicious extension that exposed internal repositories and what went wrong

GitHub has contained a breach involving unauthorized access to thousands of internal repositories, allegedly linked to a ...
Tech Times

GitHub CISO Names Nx Console as Root of 3,800-Repo Breach: OpenAI, Grafana Also Hit

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Expands Copilot Enterprise Search in Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub supercharged search for its Copilot Enterprise AI assistant in both Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code so developers can now get results from well beyond local codebases, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio

Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share ...