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> Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 02/02/2026 08:55] [LANGUAGE: EN]
Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users
The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org," developer Don Ho said. "The compromise occurred at the hosting
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