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

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

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

The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

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

Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...

The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.

Notepad++ faced a security breach last year, with reports of updates being compromised by suspected Chinese hackers for a six-month period. The developer has since addressed and fixed the ...

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