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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers (notepad-plus-plus.org)

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[–] samc@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Well now I'm nervous! My first instinct though is that the vast majority of Emacs packages are plain elisp, and Emacs users have a habit of cracking open and tinkering with their packages, so any malicious code ought to be spotted quickly.

With the native compiled modules however, it could be another story...