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Github compromised by supply chain attack on a VS Code extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by hirihit640@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The information is spread out across various articles, but from what I gather, a supply chain attack compromised the VS Code extension nx-console, which was then used to compromise Github. This all happened within two days.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

roughly 3,800 internal repositories

I suppose that part of the moral here is to compartmentalize information internal to a company. Like, if you're not on the team working on X, then you probably shouldn't have repository access to X.