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Beware of the Markdown File in Your Downloads Folder

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I read a story at the weekend that made me want to go and check my own laptop straight away. Researchers at Forever Security found a malicious AGENTS.md file sitting in a customer’s ~/Downloads folder ( BleepingComputer has the details ). Someone started a coding agent in that folder, the agent did…

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  1. 2026-10-27 14:14 · DEV Community — AI
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