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State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

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

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

The widely used, open source text-editing software Notepad++ for Windows said attackers exploited a vulnerability to redirect ...

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

Microsoft upgrades Paint and Notepad with AI-powered creation tools, enabling colouring books, smarter editing, and faster ...

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

Notepad++ users faced a serious threat as Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised update servers for half of 2025, ...

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