{"id":4287,"date":"2025-05-09T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200-cursor-users-with-backdoor-steal-credentials\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:12:20","slug":"malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200-cursor-users-with-backdoor-steal-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200-cursor-users-with-backdoor-steal-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered source code editor.<br \/>\n&#8220;Disguised as developer tools offering &#8216;the cheapest Cursor API,&#8217; these packages steal user credentials, fetch an encrypted payload from threat actor-controlled infrastructure, overwrite Cursor&#8217;s\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered source code editor.<br \/>\n&#8220;Disguised as developer tools offering &#8216;the cheapest Cursor API,&#8217; these packages steal user credentials, fetch an encrypted payload from threat actor-controlled infrastructure, overwrite Cursor&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered source code editor. &#8220;Disguised as developer tools offering &#8216;the cheapest Cursor API,&#8217; these packages steal user credentials, fetch an encrypted payload from threat actor-controlled infrastructure, overwrite Cursor&#8217;s\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200-cursor-users-with-backdoor-steal-credentials\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}