GitHub has confirmed an attack via an extension for Visual Studio Code. The stolen data is apparently for sale on a cybercrime forum.
Attackers apparently had access to GitHub's internal repositories. The operator of the version control platform initially confirmed to the platform Bleeping Computer and later on X that the company was investigating the unauthorized access to repositories.
According to the post on X, only internal repositories are affected. There are no indications that customer information has been exfiltrated. Should this be the case, GitHub has announced that it will inform those impacted directly through the usual channels.will take place. The tenth edition of the conference on secure software development is moving to Marburg this year.
This year's focus will be on the secure software supply chain and the security aspect of Agentic AI in software development, among other things.there were numerous extensions with malicious codeTeamPCP has claimed the attack in a cybercrime forum. The group is said to be responsible for numerous recent incidents, includingTeamPCP is auctioning the data via the cybercrime forum and only extorting GitHub between the lines.
In the text, however, the group explicitly emphasizes that it does not want any ransom and does not want to extort GitHub, but wants to sell the stolen data to the highest bidder. However, they will not accept bids below 50,000 US dollars. If a buyer is found, the group assures that all data will be deleted. If no buyer is found, they would publish the data for free. That sounds a bit like extortion.
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