Cursor says a modified Claude Code extension in its marketplace tried to plant an SSH backdoor and may have affected up to 5,000 users. The company says the build was not made by Anthropic and has since been removed.Read original on X
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Cursor says a modified Claude Code extension tried to plant a backdoor
Cursor says up to 5,000 users may have been affected, and that Anthropic did not make the build.
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Cursor says a modified Claude Code extension tried to plant a backdoor
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