How a Downloads Folder File Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent
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A security firm called Forever Security caught a coding agent on a real customer's machine in the middle of installing a known-malicious npm package. Nobody had typed that command. The instruction came from a plain text file sitting in the customer's ~/Downloads folder, and nobody remembered puttin…
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- 2026-10-27 08:40 · DEV Community — AI
How a Downloads Folder File Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent