Hackers find a way to turn users own AI agents and Downloads folders against them
THE SO WHAT
An AI coding assistant blindly following instructions from the Downloads folder is the new macro virus — agents are now a lateral movement vector inside the workstation. Lock down where your agents can read from and execute against, and treat local file system access as a privileged capability, not a default.
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