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Hijacked Notepad++ updater quietly targeted users for months
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Not just any user, but people in Asia. Seems very targeted.
The issue was they weren’t validating the update pulled down from the hacked update hosting server was legit.
They’ve since switched hosting services and added validation.