Tech Times

500 Poisoned Packages, Hundreds of Companies: TeamPCP’s Worm Just Reached GitHub

A GitHub employee installed a routine VS Code extension update, handed cybercrime group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate ...

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 Confirms Breach of Internal Repositories Via Malicious VS Code Extension

The Microsoft-owed software developer platform, GitHub, has confirmed a third-party has gained unauthorized access to 3800 ...
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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Copilot for Azure Previews in Visual Studio 2022

Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The new GitHub Copilot for Azure extension, now in Public Preview for newer Visual Studio 2022 editions, surfaces Azure ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

In this article, we’ll cover what GitHub Copilot is, why it matters, and how you can use it to generate and optimize code inside Visual Studio. We’ll also examine how GitHub Copilot can fix issues in ...