Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors

A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for ...
Mezha

Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor attempted to install SSH backdoors

A compromised version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was available in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours ...
finance.biggo

Malicious Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Hid SSH Backdoor, Up to 5,000 Users Exposed

A tampered build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension for Visual Studio Code, labeled version 2.1.313, was found to contain a 66-line loader ...
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Second Life Wants Its 23-Year-Old World To Be a Modern Game Platform

Linden Lab’s Anya Kanevsky explains how Luau, Visual Studio Code integration, live iteration, and an established creator ...

I tried running Strata on an old custom-built PC with a 14-year-old CPU by plugging in an RTX 3060

The motivation behind thisI had been running Strata, which powers Qwen3.8 Flash Next, on two of my home-built PCs and using ...
xenospectrum

GitHub Octoverse 2026: AI Agents Now Start Over 40% of Pull Requests as Surging Load Strains Infrastructure

GitHub's annual Octoverse 2026 report shows agents initiating about 40% of pull requests. It also shows how 7.4 billion monthly commits contributed to major outages and a rebuild of GitHub's Git ...
orcarouter.ai

ChainDrop: valid provenance in 400+ npm packages, and Claude Code hooks that need no npm install

On 4 August 2026 a stolen keyv GitHub account pushed malware to main and the project's own CI signed it. The ChainDrop worm ...