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

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

The widely used, open source text-editing software Notepad++ for Windows said attackers exploited a vulnerability to redirect ...

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

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

Notepad++ updates were hijacked in a state-sponsored attack, with China-linked hackers redirecting downloads to malicious servers.

Rapid7 dropped a write-up on the Notepad++ update-chain abuse and - finally - it comes with real IOCs - update.exe downloaded ...

Notepad++ has confirmed it was the victim of a highly targeted and sophisticated cyberattack, most likely conducted by a ...

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