Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers' machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The compromised package was a VS…
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Published12 h ago (Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:09:54 GMT)
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AuthorDan Goodin