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242 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 2 Feb \ on: Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users tech

This is going to happen more often with a variety of things. I'm also not entirely happy with Signal's new update mechanism either. Its made so that normies who have no idea what is on their phones can update outside of the app stores in case they get banned - I get that. But that doesn't make it good...

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30 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2 Feb

talking about malware, check this out

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 2 Feb

Hmm that screenshot looks like it is from breachforums (dot bf) but I cant find that post

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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2 Feb
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @itsrealfake 3 Feb

darth is Spanish?

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin OP 3 Feb

Darth is darth.
Darth speaks fluently 4 languages

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 3 Feb

noted

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2 Feb

Yeah - saw that.

It's likely that they don't know because according to the screenshot it is IDOR - i.e. unsecured, publicly accessible, file URLs. So it's not like someone hacked something, it was just sitting out there for anyone to download.

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