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Hackers Can Hijack AI Agents Just by Planting Malicious Files in the Downloads Folder

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AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. These tools write, run, and modify code with little supervision. Each one automatically reads and obeys any instructions file it finds in the folder it opens. The investigation began with an alert. Forever stopped a coding agent mid-session from installing function-color, a malicious npm package. […] The post Hackers Can Hijack AI Agents Just by Planting Malicious Files in the Downloads Folder appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform .

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