Beep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoNotepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackersnotepad-plus-plus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square90linkfedilinkarrow-up1534cross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlprogramming@programming.dev
arrow-up1534external-linkNotepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackersnotepad-plus-plus.orgBeep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square90linkfedilinkcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlprogramming@programming.dev
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 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·edit-28 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-up1·8 months agoI think I was remembering the CIA Wikileaks one which was a compromised DLL.
minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 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.