Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.
State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six ...
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...
The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.
Today, in a post titled "Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers," Notepad++ confirmed the app had fallen victim to ...
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...
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.