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

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

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.

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

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.

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...

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

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

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

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported ...

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