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

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 ...

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

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 likely to have involved a Chinese state-sponsored group.

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 ...

Notepad++ released version 8.8.9 in December, which checks digital signatures and certificates before installing any updates.

Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...

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

Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.

This week’s cyber recap covers AI risks, supply-chain attacks, major breaches, DDoS spikes, and critical vulnerabilities security teams must track.