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Notepad++ gang, rise, claim your kingdom.
Well.. As long as you don't use their automatic updater.
Well it's a 23y old application that had one issue where the dev's machine got infected, and it was handled ~instantly.
What's the actual problem here?
This isn't the first time that application has had problems either, the CIA hacked it because it was loading unsigned DLLs: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/
To be fair it's one of the most popular text editors so it's not surprising nation states would target them, and it's hard to block someone with those kinds of resources.
Instantly? The article says “lasted for almost half a year”
We're talking geologic timescales here. Did you miss the memo?
Didn't it got patched?
Kate FTW!
But disable automatic updates...
What’s an update?
No? That's already been long-fixed?
I'm talking about this incident, fixed in February 2026
Probably prudent anyways. What agent they broken recently?
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Metapad still strong.
This was my first thought. I hadn't bothered installing it in a while, then one day that fucking copilot icon appeared, and back I went. There's something to be said for a tool that does the thing it needs to do well and only that.
I really hope that's sarcasm considering latest news xd