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

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

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

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 ...

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

The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.

Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 are getting yet more updates, but Microsoft should really be focusing on other in-box ...

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

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, ...

Notepad++ has been compromised in a sophisticated nation-state cyberattack. Learn about the security breach, the ...

Notepad++ users faced a serious threat as Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised update servers for half of 2025, distributing malware named Chrysalis. Targeting organizations with East Asian ...