Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...
By AJ Vicens Feb 2 (Reuters) - A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the ...
Notepad++'s updater usually pops up, but users can also prompt it by selecting the "?" dropdown in the taskbar. Christopher ...
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 issue.
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.