Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...
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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
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By AJ Vicens Feb 2 (Reuters) - A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the ...
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 the issue.
It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider disagree on the exact timings), a shared hosting server was compromised, ...
The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...