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.
VS Code agents are now in Stable preview, and the 1.122 update removed the GitHub OAuth requirement from BYOK, letting defense, healthcare, and finance developers run fully air-gapped AI-assisted ...
Morning Overview on MSN
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 ...
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