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Notepad++ updater installed malware (www.heise.de)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The updater for the open-source editor Notepad++ has installed malware on WINDOWS PCs. The Linux ecosystem doesn't allow for this kind of network attack because of signing.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    np++ isn't on Linux I thought

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    There are quite a lot of packages running it through wine, on AUR, as snap/flatpak, and probably more I didn't see in my cursory search. So the question is does this exploit work on wine I guess.

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