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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devM to Opensource@programming.dev · 2 months ago

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored hackers

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    2 months 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.

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