By Connor Jones
Publication Date: 2026-06-03 14:30:00
Security
Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks
Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product after becoming disillusioned with the way the company handles security reports.
Ammar Askar dropped a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) flaw within just an hour of disclosing it to “an old contact” at the open source platform, according to his account of things.
The vulnerability he exposed involves attackers configuring repos, either of their own making or those they have compromised separately, to push malicious VS Code extensions via its Workspace Recommendations feature, which then steal OAuth tokens they can then use to read/write public and private GitHub repos.
It affects anyone who has ever used github.dev, a feature that allows users to open a GitHub repo in a…
