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minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·4 days agoIf I recall correctly this is the second time this has happened to N++. Fool me once… can’t get fooled again.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoThree times++, actually. The second attack was documented to have resumed after the third, with different payload URLs. https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI think I was remembering the CIA Wikileaks one which was a compromised DLL.
minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI’ve kind of stopped following things up since I left windows, but maybe you’re remembering when this actually happened a while ago? This is just some in-progress post-mortem report.
If I recall correctly this is the second time this has happened to N++. Fool me once… can’t get fooled again.
Three times++, actually. The second attack was documented to have resumed after the third, with different payload URLs.
https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
I think I was remembering the CIA Wikileaks one which was a compromised DLL.
I’ve kind of stopped following things up since I left windows, but maybe you’re remembering when this actually happened a while ago? This is just some in-progress post-mortem report.