GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. 

The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extension, nrwl.angular-console, was breached after one of its developers’ systems was hacked in the