• JTskulk@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The updater for the open-source editor Notepad++ has installed malware on WINDOWS PCs. The Linux ecosystem doesn’t allow for this kind of network attack because of signing.

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        10 hours ago

        There are quite a lot of packages running it through wine, on AUR, as snap/flatpak, and probably more I didn’t see in my cursory search. So the question is does this exploit work on wine I guess.