A security researcher has released exploit code for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens by tricking users into clicking a ...
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said ...
Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technology to help safeguard open-source code against hackers, has raised a new round of funding that values the company at $1 billion. Josh Kushner’s Thrive ...
A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...
GitHub breach fears are back after the company confirmed attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories through a poisoned VS Code extension. GitHub says customer repositories were not affected ...
An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-facing instances. Designed as an alternative to GitHub ...
GitHub confirmed that the cybercrime group TeamPCP exfiltrated roughly 3,800 internal code repositories after compromising an employee device through a poisoned VS Code extension. The Microsoft-owned ...
What we know so far: Hackers have reportedly used a malicious Visual Studio Code extension to gain access to a GitHub developer's machine, then leveraged the stolen credentials to move into GitHub's ...
The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers at Google say they have found the first ever evidence of hackers using artificial intelligence to create the most serious type of cyber security flaw. The team from Google Threat ...