Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...
The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author.
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
Notepad++ update servers were compromised for 6 months in 2025. Learn how the Chrysalis backdoor targeted users and why you must manually update to version 8.9.1 now.