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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 ...
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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 ...
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Programming language Python VS Code extension: New update has critical security fix

Microsoft has released the May 2020 update for its Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its popular open-source, cross-platform code editor. Users should update the extension to address ...
ZDNet

Programming language Python in VS Code: New Jupyter extension supports R and Julia

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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 ...

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

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...