SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy unauthorized remote access and target technicians. Explore the attack chain, mitigations, and Microsoft Defender XDR hunting.

You want AI to help with your computer tasks. But when you hear terms like "terminal" or "installation," you're not sure ...

Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code–branded extension, its persistent SSH backdoor, and guidance to detect and remediate it.

A tampered version of the official Claude Code extension was briefly distributed through Cursor's own marketplace with an SSH backdoor. Implementation flaws stopped most remote access, but persistence ...

On October 29, 2026, the AI code editor Cursor announced that version 2.1.313 of the "Anthropic.claude-code" extension, distributed through its own extension marketplace, contained malicious code.This ...

The malicious file (SHA-256 ecb58cb29078d9646ad1dcdbe51526f2d9cfea06be5fb2ab183e8ecc3ab6bf15, 3,692,922 bytes) is roughly 7 KB larger than the preceding clean release, and sandbox telemetry shows the ...

A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to ...

Cursor on October 29, 2026 disclosed a security incident involving a maliciously modified version of the ...

A weaponized Claude Code extension found on Open VSX can give attackers persistent remote access to developer systems by planting an SSH key, opening a reverse tunnel, and installing startup scripts.

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

Windows servers connected through Azure Arc can now install the Azure File Sync agent using a new extension called Azure File Sync Agent for Windows. The new extension is published by Microsoft and ...

In a nutshell: OpenAI has released a major update to its ChatGPT browser extension, bringing deeper integration with Google Chrome. The extension can now access content from open webpages, analyze ...