Anthropic got compromised.
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@GossiTheDog Thanks for bringing attention to this, Kevin. You probably saw it, but people claiming to be from Anthropic have been commenting on the thread about this at Hacker News. e.g.
"Dworken from Anthropic here, 2.1.313 was never published on OpenVSX, the VS Code marketplace, or on any of our official hosts. The malicious actor here had published a fake version of this extension on Cursor's marketplace. In order to disambiguate, we made sure our next update was 2.1.314."
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I hate it when I get disambiguated
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To be clear this is a supply chain attack, the threat actor got reverse SSH (command line) connectivity to Anthropic customer environments at scale.
@GossiTheDog this is my favorite thing about security - you build all these walls and defenses, then you escort the enemy through the front gates with fanfare and champagne
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Anthropic got compromised.
Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.
@GossiTheDog One of many exploits to be found and perhaps executed by agents, I muse.
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@GossiTheDog I still haven't managed to tease out from these statements whose security failed (other than the end users'). Were credentials stolen from Anthropic? Was there an exploit found in Cursor's upload system?
Both parties are rattling off lists of things that didn't go wrong, suggesting (but not stating) that they weren't at fault. But the hack didn't just magically happen without a security failure.
@Farbs @GossiTheDog "Ultimately it is the end-user who foolishly trusted our products and processes who must bear the brunt of the blame."
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Anthropic silently removed the backdoor 7 hours ago and hasn’t disclosed a security incident.
The plugin auto updates so every org will have been impacted.
@GossiTheDog so is it this backdoor that infected binance?
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@GossiTheDog I still haven't managed to tease out from these statements whose security failed (other than the end users'). Were credentials stolen from Anthropic? Was there an exploit found in Cursor's upload system?
Both parties are rattling off lists of things that didn't go wrong, suggesting (but not stating) that they weren't at fault. But the hack didn't just magically happen without a security failure.
@Farbs @GossiTheDog It's pretty clear what happened at this point: Cursor runs a mirror/proxy of the Open VSX marketplace. They copy in a subset of extensions, leaving the official metadata from the upstream Open VSX (which, as they are not themselves verifying the authenticity of what they're mirroring, is a wrong thing to do at this point). Their (Cursor's) mirror was breached, a version of the extension was published only on their mirror. Anthropic published a newer version on the Open VSX marketplace to make sure they don't publish a version matching the compromised version. The issue only impacted people using Cursor's mirror. The bulk of the issue going public happened in the middle of the night US Pacific time, and getting clearance to post official comms inside Anthropic took time, Cursor's statement was technically correct from the beginning and stated that their own repository had been breached and rebuilt, but a bunch of unscrupulous infosec pundits misinterpreted the post, jumped to conclusions about who was compromised, and rushed to post articles about it with information that was demonstrably false at the initial time of publication. Now everyone is more confused because a bunch of people injected useless noise into a tense situation, when the people who were impacted were being reached out to directly by the Cursor team at the time the issue was made public. No compromise of Anthropic systems or credentials happened. Cursor has not yet stated how their systems were breached, only that they were.
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Anthropic got compromised.
Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.
@GossiTheDog Please help my family get basic necessities and food. Please, even 100£ would be enough for me and my family.
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Anthropic got compromised.
Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.
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I've confirmed Binance use Claude Code on Cursor with this extension.
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Anthropic got compromised.
Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.
@GossiTheDog plot twist claude is the malware
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Cursors statements to this can basically be summed up with this GIF, everything is basically about how this is a non-issue. Just, you know, thousands of developers getting owned.
@GossiTheDog $6 billion is a rounding error to these chucklefucks
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My take on this is: version ...313 is missing on the VSCode Marketplace. This does not mean it was never there. Anthropic have not said anything to the millions of users who use the extension in VSCode via the Microsoft Marketplace. Would they not have if all was well?
@AlexVoss @GossiTheDog oh nice catch
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I've written a blog - Anthropic have been hacked to deliver remote access malware to millions of endpoints where developers use Claude Code.
@GossiTheDog As much as I think this is a net bad thing, I can’t help but have a combination of schadenfreude and told-you-so feelings.
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