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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored hackers (notepad-plus-plus.org)
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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, it is n++ code because the updater is part of the code base. They just didn't have the connection to the update server hardened.

This was patched in like December, though.