Checked fact 327631 Oct 2026Safety and security
The notice says the malicious versions "were not developed by Anthropic".
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These malicious versions of the extension were not developed by Anthropic.
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Security notice: malicious Anthropic.claude-code versions in the Cursor VS Code Extension Marketplace
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