You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.

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

Journey’s most famous anthem was a largely forgotten relic of the early 1980s, until it had a massive digital-age resurgence ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.… The ...

Winhance, an open-source Windows 10 and 11 optimization tool, now uses WinUI 3, reduces RAM usage, and adds safer system tweak options.

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our weekly recap, including long-anticipated taskbar fixes in Windows 11, ...

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

Enable Windows Sandbox and test questionable software risk-free in a disposable virtual machine.

Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or ...

According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution ...