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 ...

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

It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider ...

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

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively terminated” by December 2nd. The Notepad++ updater has been updated itself with ...

Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update infrastructure was compromised for nearly six months. Developers say suspected China ...

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

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

Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.