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

A software update mechanism for the popular text editor Notepad++ was hijacked by suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers, allowing them to silently redirect some users to malicious update servers, ...

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

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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 ...

Notepad++ updates were hijacked in a state-sponsored attack, with China-linked hackers redirecting downloads to malicious servers.

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

A months-long supply chain attack that affected the Notepad++ update process has been linked to a compromise of shared hosting infrastructure rather than a flaw in the software's code. This according ...

Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview update brings AI text generation and improvement tools to Notepad, similar to chatbot functionality. The update also expands Markdown support ...