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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
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has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of its internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform disclosed late Tuesday. The breach was detected on May 19 and traced to a malicious extension that GitHub’s security team found on the employee’s […] The post GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension appeared first on Sil

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