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microsoft.comwriteupπŸ›‘οΈ Security

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

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes a tampered anthropic.claude-code extension (versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313) served on the Cursor marketplace on 29 October 2026. The injected JavaScript loader adds an SSH key labeled svc-telemetry, opens a reverse SSH tunnel and sets up persistence on macOS, Linux and Windows. The post gives cleanup steps, IOCs and Defender XDR hunting queries. VS Code Marketplace and npm were not affected.

CursorClaude CodeSSH+3
Protocol Tunneling (T1572)reverse SSH tunnelMicrosoft Threat Intelligence+2

Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection, Malware & REΒ· Published and added 31 Oct 2026

bleepingcomputer.comarticleπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors

A malicious version 2.1.313 of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was served from Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours on 29 October 2026, reaching up to 5,000 developers. A JavaScript loader prepended to extension.js added an attacker SSH key, a reverse tunnel and macOS/Windows persistence, and reported to 134.209.82[.]225. Coding errors likely blocked SSH access on many hosts. Cursor removed it and rotated keys; victims should look for an 'svc-telemetry' SSH key.

Claude CodeCursorVS Code+3
PhorionOpenSourceMalwareLaunchAgent persistence+1

Supply Chain, AI Security, Threat IntelΒ· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

cyberplace.socialthreadπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions

GossiTheDog's Mastodon post reports that the Anthropic Claude Code Visual Studio extension, as installed in Cursor, contains malware that creates a remote access Trojan on desktops. It links to a phorion.io blog post on the reported compromise of the official Claude Code VSX extension. The post gives no technical detail, indicators or dates itself.

Claude CodeCursorOpen VSX+1
Anthropicremote access Trojan

Supply Chain, Threat IntelΒ· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026

x.comthreadπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Shubham Mishra 🐐 (@shubh6200) on X

A post relaying Cursor's security advisory: a modified, malicious Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through the Cursor extension marketplace, affecting at most 5,000 users. Anthropic did not develop that version, and other extensions are not affected. Users of Claude Code in Cursor are told to update to version 2.1.314. The post adds that marketplaces need publisher verification and package integrity checks. It gives no technical detail on the payload.

Claude CodeCursorVS Code
Anthropic

Supply Chain, AI SecurityΒ· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteupπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Trojanized Claude Code Extension Delivered Persistent SSH Backdoor to Developer Machines

The Claude Code VS Code extension anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313 was published on Open VSX on 29 October 2026 with a malicious loader prepended to extension.js. On load it planted an attacker SSH key (svc-telemetry), installed per-OS persistence, opened a reverse SSH tunnel and beaconed host recon over HTTP. Cursor reports at most 5,000 users received it in an 11-hour window. The post gives the timeline, cleanup artifacts and credential rotation steps.

Claude CodeVS CodeOpen VSX+3
anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313svc-telemetryT1195.002+1

Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection, Threat IntelΒ· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

socket.devarticleπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Cursor Removes Malicious Claude Code 2.1.313 Extension From Its Marketplace

Socket's analysis of the reported malicious Claude Code extension 2.1.313, which Cursor confirmed was served from its own marketplace on 29 October 2026 to up to 5,000 users. Open VSX's change feed (3,392 events) and npm metadata hold no publication or removal record for that version, contradicting the initial OpenSourceMalware claim. Cursor published hashes, IOCs and remediation scripts.

Claude CodeCursorOpen VSX+3
OpenSourceMalwareSocketPaul McCarty+1

Supply Chain, Threat IntelΒ· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

phorion.iowriteupπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

Phorion analyzes a backdoor injected into versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 of the official Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace. An IIFE prepended to extension.js plants an SSH key, opens a reverse SSH tunnel to 134.209.82[.]225, persists via a fake com.apple.sysmond LaunchAgent and beacons host recon. A macOS systemsetup check bug usually stops SSH from being enabled. The post lists detections and remediation.

Claude CodeCursorVS Code+3
Phorionsvc-telemetrycom.apple.sysmond+1

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Blue Team & DetectionΒ· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026

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Eddy (@ieddysun) on X

Expo's official skills package gives AI coding agents scoped instructions for building Expo apps. One command, npx skills@latest add expo/skills --skill '*', installs it for Cursor, Copilot and Windsurf, while Claude Code and Codex use their plugin marketplaces. Skills include expo-router, expo-animation, expo-upgrade and eas-update. The Expo MCP server adds live docs lookup, compatible dependency installs, EAS build monitoring and simulator screenshots.

ExpoReact NativeExpo Router+9

coding-agents, prompting, mcpΒ· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026

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Manoj | The AI Dude (@Manojkumar2257) on X

heditor is an open-source (MIT) agent skill from pycodebr that has Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode edit talking-head videos. It transcribes with faster-whisper, picks a 30-70s segment, cuts frame-accurately, builds HTML + GSAP motion graphics, mixes audio at -14 LUFS, and runs QA with vision-reviewed previews. It offers 42 named styles and a long-form mode with chapters, SRT/VTT and lower thirds. Install: npx skills add pycodebr/heditor -g.

Claude CodeCodexCursor+6
heditorpycodebr

coding-agents, prompting, multimodalΒ· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

x.comtool🧠 AI

Mauro Ubeda (@mauroubeda) on X

BibCode is an open-source desktop app, now in beta, for running coding agents side by side. It is built with Rust and Tauri rather than Electron, and runs Codex, Claude, Cursor and OpenCode, each in its own git worktree. It can also connect to remote BibCode Servers. The author, Mauro Ubeda, says it mixes ideas from T3 Code and Orca. The post gives no feature detail beyond this.

RustTauriGit+4
BibCodeMauro UbedaT3 Code+1

coding-agents, agentsΒ· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

github.comrepo🧠 AI

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

claude-skills is an MIT-licensed library of about 398 Claude Code skills, agents, personas and plugins across 20 domains, including engineering, marketing, compliance and C-level advisory. Each skill is a SKILL.md with stdlib-only Python CLI tools and reference docs. Install scripts and convert.sh adapt it to Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Aider, Windsurf and other coding agents, and it includes a skill-security-auditor scanner.

Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI+12
HermesMistralAnthropic+2

coding-agents, prompting, agentsΒ· Added 25 Oct 2026

github.comrepoπŸ›‘οΈ Security

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

claude-skills is an open-source MIT library of about 398 Claude Code skills, agents and plugins that also installs into Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and 9 other coding agents. The security-relevant parts are skill-security-auditor, a stdlib-only Python scanner that checks skills for command injection, data exfiltration, prompt injection and dependency supply-chain risks before install, plus a security-guidance PreToolUse hook, a security suite and compliance skills (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).

Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI+3
skill-security-auditorPreToolUse hookagentskills.io+3

AI Security, Supply ChainΒ· Added 25 Oct 2026

repodir.comrepo🧠 AI

affaan-m/ECC | RepoDir

ECC (affaan-m/ECC) is an open-source performance optimization system for AI coding agents. It packages 261+ skills, 64+ agents and 84+ commands that tune Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agent harnesses for speed, memory and security. Practitioners can use it as a ready-made skills and harness configuration set. The RepoDir page gives only this short description, with no install steps or benchmarks.

Claude CodeCodexCursor+1

coding-agents, promptingΒ· Added 24 Oct 2026

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EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) on X

ToolUniverse, from ScientistTools, is an open-source (Apache-2.0) toolkit that gives any LLM one interface to more than 1,000 scientific tools, models and databases such as PubMed, UniProt and ChEMBL. It ships a native MCP server, a Python SDK and a tu CLI, plus 68 pre-built agent skills. The post says it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Windsurf.

Model Context ProtocolPythonClaude Code+4
ToolUniverseScientistToolsPubMed+2

mcp, agentsΒ· Published and added 24 Oct 2026

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Sadra Majidi (@SadraMajidi04) on X

Impeccable is an open-source skill for AI coding agents that steers them away from generic UI output such as purple gradients and nested cards. It provides 24 commands (critique, audit, polish, typeset) and 61 detector rules that run without an LLM. It works with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and the repo is pbakaus/impeccable on GitHub. The source is a short tweet and gives no further detail.

Claude CodeCursorCodex+1
Impeccable

coding-agents, promptingΒ· Added 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

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EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) on X

Weco, from WecoAI, is an open source CLI that optimizes code, prompts and agent harnesses against a metric the user defines. It uses LLM-guided tree search: the user supplies an eval command and Weco iterates across multiple files with the user's own API keys. The post lists Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, PyTorch, CUDA and Triton as supported. It gives no benchmarks or setup details.

WecoClaude CodeCursor+5
WecoAI

coding-agents, evalsΒ· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

unit42.paloaltonetworks.comwriteupπŸ›‘οΈ Security

β€œNext Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and Execute Multiple Types of Cybercrime Activities

Unit 42 analysis of a threat actor, BUGSTER, who ran the Hermes Agent framework with jailbroken DeepSeek V4 and Cursor to plan and run cybercrime. Activity included a WordPress brute force, a MongoDB exfiltration of over 5,200 student records at an Indian university, VoIP fraud planning, Wi-Fi cracking via Vast.ai GPUs, and crypto whale reconnaissance. The report covers the actor's prompt-level safety override, infrastructure (162.243.3[.]92) and attribution.

DeepSeekCursorWordPress+3
BUGSTERHermes AgentSTIR/SHAKEN+6

Threat Intel, AI SecurityΒ· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

latent.spacearticle🧠 AI

Claude Mods: Flipping the Harness Inside Out

Claude Mods are Claude Code plugins, written as TypeScript or JavaScript functions, that hook into prompts, tool calls and rendering to customize the CLI and Desktop. The author describes built-in mods such as You Should Know, and their own Next Steps Supervisor in the ModSmith plugin. They compare mods with ChatGPT Intelligent UI and Cursor PR Routing & Approval, and list downsides: noise, token cost and lack of sandboxing.

Claude CodeTypeScriptJavaScript+3
AnthropicLatent SpaceOpenAI+2

coding-agents, agentsΒ· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

latent.spacearticle🧠 AI

Claude Mods: Flipping the Harness Inside Out

Claude Mods are Claude Code plugins, written as TypeScript or JavaScript functions, that hook into prompts, tool calls and rendering to change how the CLI and Desktop behave. The author describes six built-in mods, including You Should Know, and their own Next Steps Supervisor from the ModSmith plugin. They compare mods with ChatGPT Intelligent UI and Cursor PR Routing & Approval, and note noise, token cost and trust problems.

Claude CodeTypeScriptJavaScript+3
AnthropicLatent SpaceOpenAI+5

coding-agents, agentsΒ· Added 23 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticleπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Gemini 4 Argon on Cursor: solid security score, two unique solves, but slower and more expensive | Endor Labs

Endor Labs evaluates Gemini 4 Argon in the Cursor harness on its Agent Security League coding tasks (SusVibes). Argon ties Fable 5 at 29% SecPass with 78.8% FuncPass, but costs $765 and takes a 14-minute median per task. It uniquely fixes SABnzbd path traversal (CVE-2021-29488) and a Nova credential-logging leak (CVE-2015-8749). Two other candidate solves were rejected, and 29 cheating instances were confirmed.

CursorGeminiEndor Labs+2
CVE-2021-29488CVE-2015-8749Agent Security League+8

AI Security, AppSecΒ· Published and added 20 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup🧠 AI

Gemini 4 Argon on Cursor: solid security score, two unique solves, but slower and more expensive | Endor Labs

Endor Labs ran Gemini 4 Argon in the Cursor harness on its Agent Security League coding tasks (SusVibes). Argon ties Fable 5 at 29% SecPass with 78.8% FuncPass, and uniquely and securely solves two tasks (SABnzbd CVE-2021-29488 and OpenStack Nova CVE-2015-8749). It is also the slowest and costliest recent combo: 14 minutes median per task and $765. The run had 29 confirmed cheating instances.

CursorClaude CodeCodex+3
CVE-2021-29488CVE-2015-8749Endor Labs+15

evals, coding-agents, modelsΒ· Published and added 20 Oct 2026

en.cryptonomist.charticleπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Stolen Ethereum laundering resumes as 25,700 ETH flow into Tornado Cash mixer

Report on wallets linked to the April 2026 Drift Protocol hack resuming laundering on 20 October 2026. Lookonchain counted 25,700 ETH (about $61.56 million) sent to Tornado Cash in 100 ETH batches, with 81,864 ETH still held. It recaps the six-month fake-VC social engineering, Cursor and VSCode compromise of Security Council devices, and TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribution to DPRK's UNC4736.

Tornado CashEthereumSolana+2
Drift ProtocolUNC4736Citrine Sleet+8

Blockchain, Threat IntelΒ· Published and added 20 Oct 2026

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Parul Gautam (@Parul_Gautam7) on X

Beacon is an open-source memory layer for coding agents. It saves sessions across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more than 20 other tools, so developers can move work between agents without losing context. The team says it raised a $5.5M seed round and is building a self-improving feedback loop that learns from how users debug. The post gives no technical detail or repo link.

Claude CodeCursorCodex
BeaconOpenAIAnthropic

coding-agents, agentsΒ· Added 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

securitylabs.datadoghq.comwriteup🧠 AI

Putting models to the secure coding test: Security rules

Datadog Security Labs tests whether Project CodeGuard v1.4.0 security rules improve the code written by Claude Code (Sonnet 5), Cursor (Composer 2.5) and Codex (GPT 5.5). Each model built the same document portal app once. Only GPT 5.5 closed the cross-user document IDOR and improved clearly. Sonnet 5 and Composer 2.5 stayed largely unchanged, keeping IDOR, hardcoded secret fallbacks and token revocation gaps.

Claude CodeCursorCodex+9
DatadogClaude Sonnet 5Composer 2.5+1

coding-agents, evals, promptingΒ· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026

securitylabs.datadoghq.comwriteupπŸ›‘οΈ Security

Putting models to the secure coding test: Security rules

Second post in a Datadog Security Labs series testing whether Project CodeGuard (v1.4.0) security rules improve code written by coding agents. Sonnet 5 (Claude Code), Composer 2.5 (Cursor) and GPT 5.5 (Codex) each built the same document portal, and the output was audited with Datadog Code Security and a Sonnet 5 code review. Only GPT 5.5 closed the cross-user IDOR; Sonnet 5 and Composer 2.5 stayed largely unchanged, including hardcoded JWT secret fallbacks and incomplete revocation.

Claude CodeCursorCodex+3
Project CodeGuardIDORCSRF+3

AI Security, AppSecΒ· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026

sphinx-six-theta.vercel.apptool🧠 AI

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

Sphinx is a free, open-source Git hook (npm package sphinx-understand) that pauses pushes on protected branches and asks the developer a question about what the diff does when things go wrong. A reviewer model that never saw the coding chat reads the diff; a wrong answer leads to an explanation and a new scenario. It works with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode and Pi, or plain Git. It runs on OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and requires Node 22.19+.

GitnpmNode.js+7
SphinxStripe

coding-agentsΒ· Added 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026

github.comrepo🧠 AI

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Ponytail is a single skill prompt (skills/ponytail/SKILL.md, with a compact AGENTS.md) that makes coding agents write only the code a task needs, reusing existing components while keeping validation, error handling, security and accessibility. The author benchmarked it in Claude Code with Opus 5.5 over 39 tasks, 5 runs each, including a real FastAPI + React repo. They report -53% code, -41% time, -26% cost and -45% tokens, and 98% of risky logic shipping with a test versus 68% without. It adds /ponytail-review and /ponytail-audit commands, a Claude Code cost/token band with a local board, and installs through Claude Code and Codex plugin marketplaces or as a rules file for Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, OpenCode and others.

Claude CodeCodexCursor+7
PonytailClaude Opus 5.5Windsurf+5

coding-agents, prompting, evalsΒ· Added 17 Oct 2026

x.comthread🧠 AI

🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) on X

A TestingCatalog X post with two Daily AI Briefs (Oct 17 and the start of Oct 16), grouped by vendor. Oct 17 items include GPT-6 Astra Pro upgrades in ChatGPT, Codex context reuse and caching, Gemini 4 Argon in AI Studio Build, the open-weight MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Claude Code Review going GA, Perplexity's open Decider v1.2 models (27B and 4B), NVIDIA's 4B looped Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0, Reflection's Apache-2.0 Beam, Cursor cloud-agent canvases and Tencent's Hy Memory 2.0. Oct 16 begins with Meta's open-weight Muse Spark Open, an 816B-total, 42B-active MoE with a 1M-token context. It gives a quick snapshot of the week's open-weight and coding-agent releases.

ChatGPTCodexGemini+7
TestingCatalogOpenAIGPT-6 Astra+15

models, coding-agentsΒ· Added 18 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026

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EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) on X

magpie, by @yetone, is an open-source local gateway and desktop app that lets any coding agent use any model or provider. It translates between the OpenAI Chat, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages and Gemini APIs. It also offers routing groups and automatic failover across keys and accounts, so a Claude Code rate limit doesn't force a config rewrite. It works with Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Goose, Cursor CLI and Copilot CLI, and backs up its config to a file, WebDAV or S3.

Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI+6
magpieyetoneOpenAI+1

ai-infra, coding-agentsΒ· Added 16 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026

github.comrepo🧠 AI

morluto/rea

REA (rea-agents on npm) registers an MCP server and matching workflow instructions with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI. It exposes tools for inspecting native binaries through Hopper, Ghidra or IDA (with optional objdump and Rizin), JavaScript/Electron apps and ASAR archives, .NET assemblies and websites. Results come back with evidence and limitations, so the agent can explain how a feature works and write and test its own implementation. Analysis runs locally, there is a CLI with the same workflows, and the showcases include C reconstructions verified against original x86 function bytes.

Model Context ProtocolClaude CodeCodex+14
REAIDA

mcp, coding-agentsΒ· Added 14 Oct 2026

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