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Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.

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[–] bwaz@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

It would be nice if there were a test that yhose of us unskilled in pc jargon could run to check all this stuff. A lot of people likely hit by this are familiar with little more than clicking an icon.