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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by Freak_NL on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:49AM (#21395682)
More specifically:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13415/v7-3-3-f...

The CIA replaced a DLL dependency of Notepad++ with a hijacked version on compromised Windows systems.

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by creshal on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:12AM (#21397293)
The dependency is used in a lot of Windows software too, it wasn't even targeted at Notepad++ specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software)

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