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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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That won't rescue your system if it is already compromised though. It will just prevent it from being newly compromised in this manner.
True, but in this case it seems worth doing due to the relatively patient, selective nature of the attack - it would at least clean out a compromised Notepad++ if it had not spread to a wider system compromise yet.