Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

know this was not their fault but i haven’t trusted np++ since the charlie hebdo stunt that made it look like the app was a virus.

So what does this mean for ordinary users?

According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. [...] The attackers specifically targeted Notepad++ domain with the goal of exploiting insufficient update verification controls that existed in older versions of Notepad++.

🪟h w🪟w, every🪟ne d🪟ing their 🪟wn thing with updates actually isn't a g🪟🪟d idea? C🪟uld've never guessed.