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Cursor IDE AI code editor designed to improve your code

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor that aims to transform the way developers work by integrating advanced artificial intelligence technologies directly into the coding environment. This innovative ...
Bleeping Computer

AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The ...
Geeky Gadgets

Developer Loses $500,000 While Coding in Cursor : Malicious Cursor IDE Extension Exposed

What if a single click could cost you half a million dollars? For one blockchain developer, this nightmare became a reality when a seemingly harmless coding extension in Cursor IDE turned out to be a ...
GIGAZINE

ByteDance's Cursor-rivaling AI editor 'Trae IDE' turns out to send user data to a server and have an unusually large number of processes

Trae IDE ' is a code editor developed by TikTok's ByteDance based on Visual Studio Code (VSCode), and is touted for its free AI coding assistance features. Analysis results for Trae IDE have been ...
CSOonline

Rogue MCP servers can take over Cursor’s built-in browser

A new proof-of-concept attack shows that malicious Model Context Protocol servers can inject JavaScript into Cursor’s browser — and potentially leverage the IDE’s privileges to perform system tasks.