The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious ...

Notepad++'s updater usually pops up, but users can also prompt it by selecting the "?" dropdown in the taskbar. Christopher ...

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Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...