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

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[-] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days 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.

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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026

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