AceBonobo comments on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

You might have version 8.8.1 or lower, however it might have tried to order update got the vulnerable package instead and then remained on the older version. I think even if you have the older version that's not a sign that you weren't compromised.

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[–] pez@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

Fair point. I was assuming the malicious payload would come along with an update on order to hide, but it's also possible that the malicious payload was delivered without any update to notepad++.

I've not seen any IOCs published have you?

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[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I'm not sure what you mean. The article states there were remote hands on keyboard noticed in multiple companies. That's how the vulnerability was discovered.

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[–] pez@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean IOCs that you can scan for in an environment to see if a machine has been compromised using this vulnerability. Something that tells you if you need to do additional remediation on a machine or just update notepad++ and move on.

Edit: Found some! This is the type of info I was thinking of when I used IOCs

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/

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