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 ...

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...

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

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

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

The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs Security researchers have attributed the ...

The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS App, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) that’s ...

A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group named Lotus Blossom hijacked the update process of Notepad++ to target specific users. Gaining access in June 2025, they maintained control until December that ...

Previously Clawdbot and then Moltbot, this agent can take actions without you having to prompt it and make those decisions by accessing large swaths of your digital life.

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