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

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

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 ...

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

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

A new cybersecurity report has revealed that hackers exploited the Notepad++ updater to conduct a months-long targeted ...

You’re likely familiar with a man-in-the-middle attack where an attacker sits between a user and a legitimate service, ...

Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised ...

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

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

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

Rapid7 dropped a write-up on the Notepad++ update-chain abuse and - finally - it comes with real IOCs - update.exe downloaded ...