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Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 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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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Direct link to the indicators of compromise that you can check on

The update system hoster determined the compromise was only used against specific targets, so it's relatively unlikely "normal people" would have been compromised. But if you want to check, you can check on those indicators. These only cover what was discovered on identified compromise, though.