Planted AGENTS.md File Led Codex to Run Malware in Most Lab Tests

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Security firm Forever disclosed an attack in which a malicious web page could silently save an AGENTS.md file into a user's Downloads folder without any click or approval. When a coding agent started in that folder, it treated the planted file as project instructions and was steered into installing a malicious npm package, which npm has since removed. In the researchers' lab rebuild, Codex ran the malware in over 90% of attempts, and a CLAUDE.md variant routed Claude Code's traffic through an attacker's server about half the time, exposing a login token. Forever argued that the flaw lies in how agents trust instruction files rather than in a bug that OpenAI or Anthropic could patch. The write-up was published on October 22, 2026, and covered by Help Net Security on October 26.

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