Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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• suut Member

  February 2

  Try https://zed.dev

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• ravi Member

  February 2

  I quote from the website:

  Multiple independaent security researchers have assessed that the threat acotor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group

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• e2bs2k1 Member

  February 2

  @ravi said:
  I quote from the website:

  Multiple independaent security researchers have assessed that the threat acotor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group

  Deserve it if it is true LOL.
• ravi Member

  February 2

  @suut said:
  Try https://zed.dev

  Thank you for sharing. Its new to me
  It looks interesting, and I think I will give it a try.
• zed Member

  February 2

  @suut said:
  Try https://zed.dev

  I'll take a look but I jumped to SublimeText when the np++ dev annoyed me and I'm pretty happy with it.

  @ravi said:
  I quote from the website:

  Multiple independaent security researchers have assessed that the threat acotor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group

  I read this too but discounted it due to the misspellings.

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• ralf Member

  February 2 edited February 2

  gvim is better than all of them

  EDIT: inb4 if you can figure out how to quit it

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• noisycode Member

  February 2

  @suut said:
  Try https://zed.dev

  Now it's my favorite with Google Pro API.
• jar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

  February 2 edited February 2

  @zed said:
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548

  I quit using np++ some years ago when he did a fake April 1 update, but maybe some people still use it.

  State-sponsored hackers, well whatever.

  Everything about this feels like “our website got hacked and the IPs resolved to China.” It “wasn’t the notepad++ code” well yeah, that’s not the code that runs the site 😂
• Greyhound Member

  February 2

  notepad-- is a better alternative.
• lowendclient Member

  February 2

  Oh noooooo Taiwaaaaaaaan!
• Kodomu Member

  February 2

  I'm still using a version from 2021, so I guess I'm safe.

  I should probably update.
• blip1945 Member

  February 2

  The dev is overly political...

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• vailiernits Member

  February 2

  Political virtue signaling gets met with actual political treatment, who could've seen it coming.

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• bozolover99 Member

  February 2 edited February 2

  yikes I use notepad++ is the editor ok to use? looks like just the website and not the code
• sillycat Member

  February 2 edited February 2

  @jar said: Everything about this feels like “our website got hacked and the IPs resolved to China.”

  Provider in question is Hostinger. The domain has been resolving to Hostinger IPs for the past 3 years.

  

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• host_c Patron Provider, Top Host, Megathread Squad

  February 2

  @zed said:
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548

  I quit using np++ some years ago when he did a fake April 1 update, but maybe some people still use it.

  State-sponsored hackers, well whatever.

  OK, I have just 1 qestion.

  In all things that came to light in the past days, what the heck, it's HACK season open?

  

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• jar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

  February 2

  @sillycat said: Provider in question is Hostinger

  I apologize to the developer for making assumptions. He's clearly a pro.

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• stefeman Member

  February 2

  any tldr? How to check if im affected?
• MrLime Member

  February 2

  They can’t even spell check their news post. Tells me all I needed to know. Time to use an alternative staffed by more competent people.
• oriend Member

  February 2

  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?
• zed Member

  February 2

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

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• tfgp99 Member

  February 2

  @zed said:

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

  Memory Unlocked!
  Reguards

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• oriend Member

  February 2

  @zed said:

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

  Forgot to mention that I'm looking for FOSS alternative.
• Levi Member

  February 2

  @oriend said:

  @zed said:

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

  Forgot to mention that I'm looking for FOSS alternative.

  Zed.dev was recommended. Take a look.

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• Greyhound Member

  February 2

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  Notepad--
  https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--

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• bikegremlin Member

  February 2

  @zed said:

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

  $99 for a personal licence - good for 3 years of updates.
  That is for one computer or can be used on serveral (with the same licence)?

  Looks a bit pricy either way.

  I gave Zed editor a try. No PHP syntax marking from the box (extension must be used to add it), will see.

  Kate is good for Linux, on Windows it doesn't play nicely with right_ALT+V and some other YU latin keyboard layout stuff.
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  February 2

  @suut said: Try https://zed.dev

  

  😍

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• meaton Member

  February 2

  @suut said:
  Try https://zed.dev

  Thanks. I've been using Notepad++ since forever... but this looks really nice so far.
• ravi Member

  February 2

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://lite-xl.com/

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• ravi Member

  February 2 edited February 2

  @bikegremlin said:

  @zed said:

  @oriend said:
  Anyone knows an alternative with tabs and a functionality of notepad++ to save a session without saving files itself?

  https://www.sublimetext.com/download

  $99 for a personal licence - good for 3 years of updates.
  That is for one computer or can be used on serveral (with the same licence)?

  Looks a bit pricy either way.

  sublimetext is free. It offers a fully functional trial with no time limit
  You can simply close the popup reminder asking you to purchase a license every time you start the editor.

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