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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers (notepad-plus-plus.org)
submitted 2 days ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Notepad++ installed from any package manager was perfectly fine and safe.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.

[–] bgb_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

I know.