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A security researcher has publicly disclosed a new Visual Studio Code zero-day vulnerability that can reportedly let ...

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GitHub disclosed that attackers used a malicious Visual Studio Code extension on an employee's laptop to exfiltrate roughly 3,800 of its internal repositories.