Morning Overview on MSN

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 ...
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.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

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GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

GitHub, the world's biggest code repository and DevOps platform, fell victim to a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) ...
Infosecurity Magazine

GitHub Breach Traced to Malicious 'Nx Console' VS Code Extension

A threat actor compromised an Nx developer and posed as a legitimate maintainer to publish a malicious extension on Visual ...
Windows Report

GitHub Confirms Breach After Malicious VS Code Extension Exposed 3,800 Repositories

GitHub confirmed a breach affecting about 3,800 internal repositories after an employee installed a malicious VS Code ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio v17.11 brings productivity improvements, GitHub Copilot enhancements

Microsoft also unveiled the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, featuring support for the forthcoming .NET 9 development platform. Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, an update ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free'

New Copilot AI features and functionality mark the latest edition of Microsoft's flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. "Meet GitHub Copilot Free," says a heading in the company's Feb. 11 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Ships Early December Copilot Updates Across Spaces, Visual Studio and Model Options

GitHub kicked off this month with a cluster of GitHub Copilot updates spanning the Copilot Spaces collaboration surface, the Visual Studio IDE experience, and the available model lineup in Copilot ...
InfoQ

GitHub Launches Free Copilot Plan for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Users

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...