Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page. That functionality comes with the Python extension in the VS Code ...
TeamPCP gained access to GitHub's private source code after an employee unknowingly installed a malicious coding tool.
On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...
TeamPCP exfiltrated 3,800 internal GitHub repositories after poisoning a VS Code extension. No customer data was affected, the company says.
Sometime in early 2025, an attacker slipped malicious code into a Visual Studio Code extension, and a GitHub employee ...