The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

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

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...

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 ...

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.

Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

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Once the forgotten child of Windows' armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it's gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state ...