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Update Notepad++ urgently!

Black skull © Karolin Kriesch​/​TU Dortmund
If you are not supplied with Notepad++ via the central software distribution of the ITMC, please update manually!

An urgent security update for Notepad++ was released yesterday. The current version is 8.9.1:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.9.1/

Since the original exploit was probably done by a state actor who infiltrated the update infrastructure. See also:

https://www.heise.de/news/Notepad-Updater-Uebernahme-durch-staatliche-Akteure-11162101.html