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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 2026-02-02 Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider. According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org.
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