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.
XDA Developers on MSN

VS Code is the best productivity app on my PC, and I barely use it for coding anymore

The best code editor might actually be your best everything editor.

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Tech Times

500 Poisoned Packages, Hundreds of Companies: TeamPCP’s Worm Just Reached GitHub

A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update, handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate ...
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 ...

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 ...
Cybernews

GitHub confirms breach after hackers put stolen source code up for sale

GitHub has confirmed that hackers breached internal repositories through a poisoned VS Code extension after stolen source ...
Infosecurity Magazine

GitHub Confirms Breach of Internal Repositories Via Malicious VS Code Extension

The Microsoft-owed software developer platform, GitHub, has confirmed a third-party has gained unauthorized access to 3800 ...

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

GitHub is investigating a cyberattack linked to a malicious VS Code extension after hackers allegedly accessed thousands of ...
New Atlas

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GitHub

debugging-python-in-visual-studio.md

Visual Studio installed with support for Python workloads. For more information, see Install Python support in Visual Studio. Python code to use with the debugger. If you want to control your Python ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...