State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six ...
Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...
You’re likely familiar with a man-in-the-middle attack where an attacker sits between a user and a legitimate service, ...
Don Ho, the developer of Notepad++, says 'malicious actors' had targeted the update process for 'certain targeted users' beginning in June 2025 ...
Notepad++ says its update system was reportedly hijacked for months in a targeted cyber campaign linked to suspected Chinese ...
The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively terminated” by December 2nd. The Notepad++ updater has been updated itself with ...
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
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 ...
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
Chinese state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising Notepad++ update infrastructure in a hosting-level breach and selectively infecting users with malware.
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.