It affects their VSCode marketplace extension which in turn affects their cursor extension. Their official published version. This is plenty of reason to panic.

> Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio Code and Cursor has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.

> "Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio Code and Cursor has malware in it"

why are you spewing straight up lies?

EDIT: This comment is probably nonsense, cf. the reply.

dang should change the title and/or merge this submission with the other one. [1] This is causing needless panic for a typosquatting-style "attack" unrelated to official Anthropic extensions.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301983