Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions
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Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 35 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #1 of 25, reached on Oct 30, 12:49 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 31, 04:51 UTC. The same link also trended on Hacker News, which raises its cross-platform score.
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lol. lmao. If this is true, then this is way too good of a supply chain attack to waste on [some mere $6b crypto theft](https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117529440075662184). How many distro maintainers are using Claude? Even these from "conservative" distros like Debian, which would usually be relatively hard…
To be clear: Anthropic is on HN clarifying that this was exclusively distributed by the Cursor marketplace to Cursor. It didn’t come from Anthropic or any other marketplace. The perpetrators incremented the version number to get it to update, so Anthropic skipped that version number and released a new one, but the…
Somewhere on the planet, there is a secret club of guys with GNU/Linux 2.4, OS/2, BeOS and Windows XP, laughing at you.
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Is Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions trending on Lobsters right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 31, 04:51 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions reached?
#1 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Oct 30, 12:49 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
How long has Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (35 checks) since.