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 ...
A reported software supply chain attack involving a malicious Visual Studio Code extension has exposed the growing security risks surrounding modern development environments. According to published ...
On May 20, 2026, GitHub announced that employee devices had been compromised by a 'VS Code extension containing malicious code,' resulting in data from internal GitHub repositories being transmitted ...
What we know so far: Hackers have reportedly used a malicious Visual Studio Code extension to gain access to a GitHub developer's machine, then leveraged the stolen credentials to move into GitHub's ...
The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.
Visual Studio Code 1.122 introduced a new feature, “ Use BYOK [Bring Your Own Key] without a GitHub sign-in ,” that allows ...