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Parth, a seasoned tech writer, wields the keyboard (or pen) with finesse to unravel the intricacies of both Windows and Mac operating systems. He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and computers for multiple publications over the last six years.
It has been reported that version 2.1.313 of the official "Claude Code for VS Code" extension contained code that installed an SSH backdoor. This version was distributed via platforms like the Cursor Marketplace and would execute as soon as the extension was enabled.
A new campaign involving malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions has exposed a loophole in the VS Code Marketplace that allows threat actors to reuse names of previously removed packages. The extensions, which carried the name “shiba ...
Parth, a seasoned tech writer, wields the keyboard (or pen) with finesse to unravel the intricacies of both Windows and Mac operating systems. He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and computers for multiple publications over the last six years.
