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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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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 installed it. For several days, that extension ran quietly on the developer’s ...

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 ...