Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
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An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers' machines, multiple sources reported Friday.
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Ars Technica AI. (2026, October 30). Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours. Ars Technica AI. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/anthropic-vs-code-extension-on-cursor-backdoored-for-nearly-12-hours/
