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> Until the IDE is patched, open untrusted repositories only in an isolated VM, Windows Sandbox, or other disposable environment.

Got to wonder why trusted repositories are excluded...

Except it might come from a trusted repo. Some of the biggest repos have been recently targeted in supply chain attacks. Consider for a moment

1. Attacker takes over maintenance of a widely used Cursor extension

2. Attacker adds a remote backdoor to monitor which repos are being maintained

3. Attacker decides to only infect the largest one with a git commit hook

4. The developer didn’t even know they just included git.exe in their commit

5. The developer is a sole maintainer on the repo and merges their own PR without review (because they(/their AI) wrote it)

6. Now a trusted repo is infected

7. A contributor pulls down the infected repo and opens cursor