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

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

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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.

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