Beep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoNotepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackersnotepad-plus-plus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1529arrow-down16cross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.devtechnology@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.dev
arrow-up1523arrow-down1external-linkNotepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackersnotepad-plus-plus.orgBeep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square84linkfedilinkcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.devtechnology@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.dev
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·3 months agoIf I recall correctly this is the second time this has happened to N++. Fool me once… can’t get fooled again.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoThree times++, actually. The second attack was documented to have resumed after the third, with different payload URLs. https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI think I was remembering the CIA Wikileaks one which was a compromised DLL.
minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoI’ve kind of stopped following things up since I left windows, but maybe you’re remembering when this actually happened a while ago? This is just some in-progress post-mortem report.
If I recall correctly this is the second time this has happened to N++. Fool me once… can’t get fooled again.
Three times++, actually. The second attack was documented to have resumed after the third, with different payload URLs.
https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
I think I was remembering the CIA Wikileaks one which was a compromised DLL.
I’ve kind of stopped following things up since I left windows, but maybe you’re remembering when this actually happened a while ago? This is just some in-progress post-mortem report.