
exploits
GitHub's 3,800-Repo Breach: How a Poisoned VS Code Extension Burned the World's Biggest Code Host
One poisoned VS Code extension on one GitHub employee's laptop cost the company ~3,800 internal repositories. Here is the attack chain, the Mini Shai-Hulud worm internals, and the rotate-everything checklist that follows.
Aron Turner·May 21, 2026
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