The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author.

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Notepad++ 8.9.2 fixes update hijack exploited to deliver malware, patches RCE flaw, and hardens WinGUp security.

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Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...

Lockdown Mode enhances the protection against prompt injections and other advanced threats. With this setting enabled, ChatGPT is limited in the ways it can interact with external systems and data, ...

I don’t need tabs, sessions, or extra clutter in a tool I open for two seconds. Notepad++ stays fast, simple, and doesn't ...

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If you use Notepad++, it's time to update. Hackers compromised the free text and coding editor to distribute a malicious update via the auto-update function. Notepad++ developer Don Ho detected the ...