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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++\u2014a widely used text editor for Windows\u2014was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored versions of the app to select targets, developers said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply apologize to all users affected by this hijacking,\u201d the author of a post<\/a> published to the official notepad-plus-plus.org<\/a> site wrote Monday. The post said that the attack began last June with an \u201cinfrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org.\u201d The attackers, whom multiple investigators tied to the Chinese government, then selectively redirected certain targeted users to malicious update servers where they received backdoored updates. Notepad++ didn\u2019t regain control of its infrastructure until December.<\/p>\n

The attackers used their access to install a never-before-seen payload<\/a> that has been dubbed Chrysalis. Security firm Rapid 7 descrbed it as a “custom, feature-rich backdoor.”<\/p>\n

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