North Korean hackers have breached more than 400 GitHub repositories to plant malicious tasks.json files. Users loading or cloning one of the hacked repos in the VS Code IDE would have malware installed on their systems. The campaign, named TasksJacker, abused a VS Code feature that auto-executes instructions placed in a tasks.json file.

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