This isn’t the first time that application has had problems either, the CIA hacked it because it was loading unsigned DLLs: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/

To be fair it’s one of the most popular text editors so it’s not surprising nation states would target them, and it’s hard to block someone with those kinds of resources.

Really it’s basically the best search engine you don’t have to host yourself. No ads, you can pin, increase ranking, decrease or outright block certain sites. You can search 100% anonymously with tokens.

Their search engine is their primary product, but yeah they play a lot with AI making little things like this.