Notepad++

I actually work for the registry that is site is registered with. Identity Digital has an abuse policy in place, so if any evidence of malware distribution or anything that runs afoul of said policy pops up I can escalate the handling of this site internally. I’ll check back on this and similar articles and forums to see if any update happens, but PMing me here on Lemmy also works too. However, until they do something that goes against one of our policies, my hands are tied unfortunately.

Edit: I can refer this to legal and see where the trademark dispute falls.

Edit 2, 2024.05.22: I’ve sent two emails to the developer’s email address, no response received.

Oh, this is something that didn't occur to me before, but I actually create similar look-alike websites (that are usually just a proxy-pass) for a few tools or libraries pretty often. I'm using them at work during pentesting engagement to legitimize our c2 api calls. (So for example you have c2 as a notepad++ DLL calling to api.notepadplus.plus or something like that, which is our c2, and the notepadplus.plus is just a proxypass for the real page.)

I never realized that a search engine may actually pick it up during the time it's up, and that the post may have very well be about something I made.

Reporting the website for malicious content when its a glorified redirect seems a bit harsh tbh. Why not try to set up a dialogue with the copycat website owner first before burning bridges?

Doesn't ICANN have a takedown method specifically for these kind of situations?

Well the url is pretty good, I can see why people fall for it.

The source: Notepad++ news: Help us to take down the parasite website

Looks like that website is already down. I certainly can't reach it. Or is that my adguard DNS blocking known ad- or malware?