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Mar 27 2026 Fake VS Code alerts on GitHub spread malware to developers

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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. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Fri 27 March 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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