⚠️ Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

｢ The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests ｣

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

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