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How a Downloads Folder File Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent

By Rohit Bhadani · DEV Community · 10/27/2026

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…

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