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AI coding agents fall for malicious instructions planted in the Downloads folder

A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user’s login token when they’re opened in that folder, Forever Security has found. The file is called…

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