The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve the issue.

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

CISA has expanded its KEV catalog with new SolarWinds, Notepad++, and Apple flaws, including two exploited as zero-days.

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

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

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

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.

In an alarming revelation, the popular text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that its update service was compromised in a targeted attack linked to state-sponsored cybercriminals. This incident sheds ...

A likely China-sponsored threat actor hijacked Notepad++'s software update mechanism and quietly redirected targeted users of the popular source code editor to malicious downloads for nearly six ...

Notepad++ update servers were compromised for 6 months in 2025. Learn how the Chrysalis backdoor targeted users and why you must manually update to version 8.9.1 now.

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

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