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Cursor temporarily suspended its extension marketplace after discovering a compromised Claude Code extension capable of installing a backdoor and giving attackers remote access to users' computers.
Summary
The company estimates that up to 5,000 users may have been affected and says it has contained the threat and secured its marketplace.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
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