It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider disagree on the exact timings), a shared hosting server was compromised, ...

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported that bad actors were hijacking its update mechanism to redirect traffic to ...

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

The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

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