Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updater – Users Urged to Patch ASAP

Developers of the widely-used text editor Notepad++ are urging all users to update their software immediately following the discovery of an active campaign where hackers compromised the application’s own update mechanism. The vulnerability, now patched in version 8.8.9, allowed threat actors to hijack the automatic updater. This enabled them to serve malicious versions of the … Continue reading Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updater – Users Urged to Patch ASAP