Hijacked Notepad++ updater quietly targeted users for months (www.pcworld.com)

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[-] isidro_carle@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Do we know what the hacked version of the app actually did after installed? For example, did it send all opened files back to some server owned by the hackers?

this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026

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