Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions
dsr_
655 points
17 comments
October 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
altbdoor
Cursor has released a security notice: https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic... Edit: related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301983
tomhow
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683 .
rhedak
These days no one is immune to these kind of attacks... Honestly it will only get worse from here.