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

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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 ...

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 ...
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Visual Studio Magazine

Python in Visual Studio Code Gets a Start Page

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page. That functionality comes with the Python extension in the VS Code ...
Windows Report

How to Install Visual Studio Code on Windows Step by Step

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...