Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by ddworken on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:17AM
(#50305139)
Dworken from Anthropic here, this did not involve a compromise of any Anthropic systems. A malicious actor used access to Cursor’s marketplace to publish a tampered extension targeting Cursor's users, we were not involved with building, publishing, or hosting this. The versions on our official channels including VS Code and OpenVSX are not affected and this only impacts Cursor users.
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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by philipwhiuk on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:22PM
(#50306165)
I'm skeptical that the corporate laptop wasn't somehow compromised - or at least the key material leaked.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by john_strinlai on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:29PM
(#50306269)
>the corporate laptop
an anthropic laptop? why are you sketpical?
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by abirch on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:47PM
(#50306558)
Exactly and why wouldn't the thieves publish to the official VS Code or Open VSX market places?
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by crooked-v on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:43PM
(#50309891)
Because what they had was some kind of admin access to Cursor's mirror of OpenVSX, and not anything else.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by quietbritishjim on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:43PM
(#50311626)
I guess they're skeptical because it seems incredible that having access to Cursor's marketplace would allow you to publish updates to a different organisation's extensions.
In fairness, that is very surprising.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by dannyw on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:05PM
(#50312213)
Reading between the lines, it seems like Anthropic isn't involved in the "official by Anthropic" extension at all.
Cursor seems to be scraping extensions from Microsoft's marketplace, and repackaging it and keeping the metadata.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
by stingraycharles on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:55PM
(#50312503)
Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all.