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 ...

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

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

A fresh wave of ransomware activity is being fueled by an uncomfortable mix of software supply-chain risk, rapidly weaponized zero-day ...

Chinese state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising Notepad++ update infrastructure in a hosting-level breach and selectively infecting users with malware.

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

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.

Clicking the malicious links could launch "unverified protocols." ...

Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update ...

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...

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