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Cursor extension marketplace

developer tools · Global

Corroborated

What happened

Developer machines that loaded the build: loader attempted to add an attacker SSH key, enable SSH, open a reverse tunnel and persist; recon included names of credential environment variables.

Up to 5,000 developers exposed; coding errors likely broke the backdoor on many machines.

What remains unknown

  • How the build reached the marketplace under Anthropic's name
  • Machines with working backdoors

Losses: unknown

Capital around this company

DFX holds no verified lender or owner record for this organization yet. That is a gap in our coverage, not evidence that none exists.

Sources

  1. Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors · 2026-10-30

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