The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is likely to have involved a Chinese state-sponsored group.
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve the issue.
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Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...
Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.
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 developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...
In an alarming revelation, the popular text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that its update service was compromised in a targeted attack linked to state-sponsored cybercriminals. This incident sheds ...
The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs Security researchers have attributed the ...
State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.