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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers (notepad-plus-plus.org)
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[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Tl;dr: NPP suffered a supply chain attack via their hosting provider. They've moved hosts and improved checks performed by the in-app updater. 8.9.1 is the version to be on.