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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 ...

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

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

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

Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over ...

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

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.

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