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Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a trojanized version of Anthropic's official Claude Code extension was distributed through the Cursor Marketplace as a legitimate update, attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor on affected systems. The malicious update, version 2.1.313, was distributed under the extension's legitimate publisher identity, prompting Cursor to temporarily shut

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Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoor
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