Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
I know it&#x27;s annoying to hear this, but I&#x27;m going to keep saying it: this stuff is silly. The DLL injection stuff in the CIA leaks should embarrass the CIA. If you&#x27;re calibrating your defenses based on the idea that application programs on Windows and OS X can defend against malware, you&#x27;re playing to lose.<p>Here&#x27;s the rootkits track from Black Hat 2008 --- keep in mind that this is almost a decade old <i>and</i> that it&#x27;s public work:<p>* Deeper Door: Exploiting NIC Chipsets<p>* A New Breed of Rootkit: The System Management Mode Rootkit<p>* Insane Detection of Insane Rootkits<p>* Crafting OS X Kernel Rootkits<p>* Viral Infections on Cisco IOS<p>* Detecting And Preventing Xen Hypervisor Subversions<p>* Bluepilling (implementing a hypervisor rootkit) The Xen Hypervisor<p>This is <i>just one year&#x27;s</i> work. If you summed all of it together, you&#x27;re talking ~2.5 FTEs across 7 different research projects which we will very generously assume took a full year to develop (spoiler: no, none of them did). People who can write hypervisor rootkits command a pretty decent salary, but it&#x27;s not 2x the prevailing SFBA senior salary. So this is at most mid-single-digit millions worth of work.<p>I don&#x27;t know why the CIA has this team of people bumbling around with DLL injectors and AV bypasses. Maybe it&#x27;s some weird turf thing they&#x27;re doing against NSA? But the stuff in the CIA leaks is not the standard you need to be protecting yourself against.