Lol, the "big news" is an infected VScode extension with 4k users stealing 3k github credentials...
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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The one Microsoft itself fell victim to recently, with their faltering github platform?
And it was live on the CS code plugin store for under an hour. It’s impressive to ensnare the operators of the platforms (plural) in such a small window.
It's because so much of corporate security is based on whether a user trusts a piece of code in an environment where they've gotten used to trusting new pieces of code. At my job, so many things ask for the one password that protects my full account that I wouldn't be surprised if someone sneaks in something that both legitimately uses it to log in to something but also saves the user/pass combo and it would likely succeed completely at getting a bunch of credentials.
Yeah, clickbait headline is sus AF.
I wonder who made the list of "don't touch these repos, they're propping up our proprietary software sans attribution" for the LLM injectabots to avoid.
I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be "erode all trust in free software" but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it's just a matter of when.
Why?
They're paid bad actors by oligarchs to force us to then turn to paid, proprietary software subscriptions endlessly while they build their dream surveillance world
Yeah, that scans...
The way I'm reading the article, this is mostly a Github thing:
The malware allows TeamPCP’s hackers to steal credentials (on github) that let them publish malicious versions of those software development tools, too (on github). The cycle repeats, and TeamPCP’s collection of breached networks grows.
They like to toot …
Uh, oh!