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 ...
Notepad++ has confirmed it was the victim of a highly targeted and sophisticated cyberattack, most likely conducted by a ...
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The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.
The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...
Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...
Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...
The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...
The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...
The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.