The maintainer of Notepad++ revealed that state sponsored attackers hijacked the utility’s update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers. The attack involved 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 provider level rather than through […]

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