Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, ...
The Hacker News

Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoor

A compromised Claude Code VS Code extension added an SSH key, installed persistence, and sent host details before version 2.1 ...
Microsoft

Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor

Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code–branded extension, its persistent SSH backdoor, and guidance to detect and ...
Help Net Security

Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop

AI assistant browser vulnerabilities in VS Code and Codex let one file read a developer’s whole disk. Both tools are still ...
The Official Microsoft Blog

Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work

If you want to compete, you need to be multi-model. And if you want to take advantage of everything that different AI models have to offer, you need a great harness. But building one that works ...

Visual Studio Professional 2026 drops to $29.97 for a lifetime license

The 64-bit IDE comes with hot reload, IntelliCode, CodeLens, Live Share, and support for GitHub Copilot Free. One payment ...