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Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor


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A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm …

First seen on helpnetsecurity.com

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