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A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

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A supply chain attack compromised thousands of developer machines via malicious Claude extensions, though flawed code accidentally limited the attacker's full access.

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Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.

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