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Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops worldwide
82Original Thinker
A detailed incident write-up with useful IOCs and remediation notes, though key figures like 5000 affected systems are unsourced.
What it adds
Reports a specific supply-chain compromise with technical IOCs and criticises both vendors for deflecting responsibility and quietly removing the tampered version.
Claim by claim
- 12 the author's own
- 0 an AI would say
- 1 known elsewhere
- 0 common knowledge
Its strongest original claims
- Around 5000 developer systems were impacted.
- Anthropic says the breach was at Cursor and it was not involved in building, publishing or hosting the tampered extension.
- Anthropic did not inform customers and the malicious version was silently deleted.
- The extension auto-updated in Cursor to the malicious version.
- Phorion was first to notice the malicious activity on endpoints.
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