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        CRITICAL ALERT: Notepad++ DLL Hijacking Flaw Allows Malicious Code Execution (Patch NOW)     By CyberDudeBivash • September 29, 2025, 11:25 AM IST • URGENT SECURITY DIRECTIVE   This is a critical security alert for the tens of millions of developers, system administrators, and power users who rely on Notepad++. A high-severity **DLL Hijacking** vulnerability has been discovered in the popular text editor that allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution. The attack is deceptively simple and highly effective: by tricking a user into opening a completely harmless file (like a `.txt` or `.log`) from a specially crafted folder, an attacker can get Notepad++ to load a malicious library, leading to a full compromise of the user's workstation. This is a classic but dangerous vulnerability class that weaponizes a trusted application against itself. The Notepad++ team has released an emergency security patch that must be applied i...