20 May 2026 - 12:42

Category: IT Fail

GitHub undone by a VS Code addon

A GitHub employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension, giving hackers access to 3,800 internal repositories. Clearly, even the people hosting our code cannot manage their own.

GitHub undone by a VS Code addon

Source: SecurityWeek

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Severity: Critical Mood: Ridiculous

We must offer a slow clap to GitHub, whose own internal repositories were breached after an employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension. This highly embarrassing intrusion affected 3,800 internal repositories and exposed the soft underbelly of our coding overlords. To protect ourselves from this specific brand of employee-assisted catastrophe, we must somehow stop staff from downloading unverified tools. Good luck convincing developers that their beloved, shiny extensions are actually Trojan horses designed to ruin our entire week.

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