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Notepad++ updater installed malware (www.heise.de)

submitted 11 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Headline seems intentionally vague. The updater was vulnerable to a download man-in-the-middle attack, because it used a weak certificate.

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[–] smeg@infosec.pub 12 points 11 months ago

Which requires a malicious network operator or some other kind of DNS poisoning. Not exactly a radical exploit

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