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Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions


Anthropic got compromised. Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio Code and Cursor has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops. https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

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