Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...
Today, in a post titled "Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers," Notepad++ confirmed the app had fallen victim to ...
State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six ...
The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.
Yet another bug in Windows 11 has left users unable to open apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, as they are greeted with error code 0x803F8001.