Trending | Ttp
A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading malware.
A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading malware.
The following organisations are mentioned in relation to this incident: GitHub, Visual Studio Code.
ENTITIES
| AR-ID | 69acee5e-ac20-49aa-a156-b75384d72933 |
| NEWS-ID | d0888dc4-cccc-4982-8eb0-4fe5a90578c7 |
| Article type | trending |
| Categories | ttp |
| Quality score | 0.9180 |
| Generation timestamp | 2026-03-30 07:47 UTC |
| Publish timestamp | 2026-03-30 07:47 UTC |
| Editor corrections | [{"by": "cn-editor", "note": "passed quality checks", "score": 0.918}] |