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

submitted 3 days ago by hamburgheftig@feddit.org to c/technik@feddit.org

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[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

TLDR Chinese hackers got into their hosting provider and hijacked the update process for notepad++ over the period June-December 2025. Apparently this was more of a targeted attack, they don't seem to imply that everyone got redirected to the hacked update server, but the recommendation is that everyone download and install the latest version manually - which includes a more secure update process, and also they've changed hosting providers.