Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of ...

Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and ...

Malicious actors served fake Notepad++ updates via the official site from June to December 2025. Older Notepad++ versions lacked update verification, letting targets get malware—upgrade to v8.9.1.

Notepad++ reported that its built-in auto-update feature had been hijacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers from June to September of 2025, and the credentials gathered by the bas actors enabled ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ...

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 ...