Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

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

State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

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.

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