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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@anthroposamu/

    Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

    Lort, the "Schroeder's cat" of upgrading. "Our website was compromised and hijacked by a state-sponsored group from June 2025 until Dec 2025, redirecting Notepad++ update traffic to malicious servers ... Please download this upgrade from our website" #Notepad #Ssoftware #Security #InfoSec

  2. #Ssoftware is shit, and getting shitter. It takes a lot for me to be surprised, amused, or curious about the increasingly ridiculous ways in which it goes wrong. But there is one mystery I can't wrap my head around:

    Why does the save location in #AcrobatReader always default to "C:\Windows\System32", a folder in which (I hope) it doesn't have the elevated permissions required to save anything?