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Notepad++ updater installed malware
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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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np++ isn't on Linux I thought
There are quite a lot of packages running it through wine, on AUR, as snap/flatpak, and probably more I didn't see in my cursory search. So the question is does this exploit work on wine I guess.
yeah there was 'notepadqq', but its not the same as ++.