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Latest: Trojanized Claude Code VS Code Extension 2.1.313 Planted Persistent SSH Backdoor on Up to 5,000 Developer Machines · thehackernews.com, Oct 30, 2026

Company Tracked keywords: cursor ai, cursor ide

6 AI Weekly issues and 34 live stories from the last 30 days mention Cursor.

6 total mentions 0/20 recent issues peak 0/issue tracked since 2026-04-18

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Live Stories (34)

ALERT Trojanized Claude Code VS Code Extension 2.1.313 Planted Persistent SSH Backdoor on Up to 5,000 Developer Machines

thehackernews.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 37

ALERT Forever Security EMBRACE Breaks Built-In Browsers in Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop

helpnetsecurity.com · 2026-10-29 · Score: 32

SpaceXAI floats unified Grok-and-X subscription, $8 Lite and $100 Ultra tiers plus a free plan

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 22

Cursor Ships Projects in Beta With Coordinator Agent That Delegates to Thousands of Subagents

cursor.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 27

Aurora Ransomware Crew Runs Cursor Agent on Claude Sonnet to Plan Attacks Against 20+ Orgs

thehackernews.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 27

Musk Tells New Cursor Team Grok Is Behind, Anthropic Leads AI Race and Humans Will Lose Control

theinformation.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 23

Cursor Ships Always-On Cloud Agents With Subscriptions, Isolated Subagents and /goal Command

cursor.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 25

Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting in Beta on All Paid Plans, Framing It as 'Designed for Agent Scale'

cursor.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 26

SpaceX Closes $60B All-Stock Acquisition of Cursor, Two Months After Announcement

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-14 · Score: 22

SpaceXAI and Cursor Launch Grok Bot Agent App in Beta for SuperGrok and Cursor Ultra Subscribers

9to5mac.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 24

ALERT OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor and Vercel Launch Agent Plugins, a Shared MCP+Skills Package Format

9to5mac.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 34

Cursor Launches $7/Month India-Only 'Start' Tier Ahead of SpaceX Acquisition

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-27 · Score: 22

ALERT Pillar Security Finds Sandbox Escapes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity Coding Agents

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-07-20 · Score: 32

Cursor Rebuilds SQLite in Rust With Grok 4.5 Agent Swarm, Hits 80% Test Coverage in 4 Hours

cursor.com · 2026-07-20 · Score: 22

Cursor Building General-Purpose 'Sand' AI Agent Aimed at Non-Developers — Handles Email, Texts, Spreadsheets to Rival Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work

theinformation.com · 2026-07-12 · Score: 23

ALERT Compromised jscrambler npm 8.14.0 Release Drops Rust Infostealer Targeting Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Zed Config Files

thehackernews.com · 2026-07-11 · Score: 28

SpaceXAI Ships Grok 4.5 With Cursor as Co-Developer — $2/$6 per M Tokens, Live in Grok Build, Cursor, and SpaceXAI Console but Blocked in the EU

axios.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 23

US House Homeland Security and Select China Committees Weigh Federal Procurement Bans and Contractor Warnings to Curb US Companies' Use of Chinese AI Models

cnbc.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 27

SpaceXAI and Cursor to Launch First Jointly Developed AI Model as Soon as Wednesday — Delayed From Earlier Week to Improve Efficiency

theinformation.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 23

HN Debate: 'AI Coding Is a Nightmare — Am I the Only One?' — Developers Report Regressions on Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor After Recent Model Bumps

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 16

'DuneSlide' Cursor IDE CVEs Disclosed — Two Zero-Click Prompt Injection Flaws (CVE-2026-50548/50549, CVSS 9.8) Let Attackers Escape Sandbox and RCE Developer Machines

thehackernews.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 26

SpaceX Briefly Surpasses Amazon at $2.6 Trillion Market Cap on Day Three of Trading

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 21

ALERT SpaceX to Acquire Cursor Maker Anysphere for $60 Billion in All-Stock Deal

TechCrunch · 2026-06-16 · Score: 38

Cursor Publishes Engineering Lessons From Building Cloud Agents — Harness Architecture, Autonomous Prompting, and Self-Healing Environments

cursor.com · 2026-05-21 · Score: 21

Cursor Ships Composer 2.5: Agentic Coding Model Matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 at One-Tenth the Cost, Built on Kimi K2.5 With 25× More Synthetic RL Training Data

Cursor · 2026-05-18 · Score: 26

ALERT Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Debuts AI Category for First Time — Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and LiteLLM All Fall on Days One and Two as Competition Sells Out in 19-Year First

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-05-15 · Score: 31

HN: Developer's Claude Opus 4.6 agent via Cursor deletes production database, sparking 437-comment safety debate

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-04-26 · Score: 27

Cognition AI, creator of Devin, in funding talks at $25B valuation — up from $10.2B

Bloomberg · 2026-04-23 · Score: 25

ALERT Microsoft explored acquiring Cursor before SpaceX's $60B deal, chose not to bid

CNBC · 2026-04-22 · Score: 28

ALERT SpaceX secures option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, preempting $2B fundraise

TechCrunch · 2026-04-22 · Score: 36

ALERT SpaceX strikes $60B deal for right to acquire AI coding startup Cursor

cnbc.com · 2026-04-21 · Score: 35

ALERT Cursor in talks to raise $2B at over $50B valuation with Nvidia backing

CNBC · 2026-04-19 · Score: 30

Anthropic MCP design flaw puts 200K+ AI servers at risk of takeover

The Register · 2026-04-18 · Score: 27

ALERT Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

TechCrunch · 2026-04-17 · Score: 31

Newsletter Issues (6)

#542 AI week ahead: data center pause backers could win 15 governor races

2026-11-02 · 1 mentions

#516 OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next?

2026-07-22 · 1 mentions

#510 Altman Offered Washington 5% of OpenAI. And 5% of Everybody Else.

2026-07-02 · 1 mentions

#486 Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI

2026-04-22 · 1 mentions

AI Business: Anthropic said no to $800B

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

Generative AI: Anthropic just retook the frontier, quietly

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions