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| 3 Nov 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
Anthropic's official Claude Code extension for the Cursor VS Code Marketplace was hijacked and swapped out for a malicious version with a persistent backdoor.
The SolarWinds-style attack in miniature lasted only 11 hours, from 9:27 a.m. GMT to 8:35 p.m. GMT, on Oct. 29, according to Cursor's disclosure. Any software developers who downloaded or updated Claude Code in their Cursor integrated development environment (IDE) during that time would have received a malicious version 2.1.313, which pilfered sensitive data from infected machines and, in a minority of cases, could have allowed attackers persistent, privileged access to users' systems. More here
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