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GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories

  • James Maguire--DevOps.com
  • published date: 2026-05-20 18:26:28 UTC

GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employee’s device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the company said it has removed the malicious extension, isolated the compromised endp…

GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employees device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the company said it has rem… [+3140 chars]