Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...
State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.
The attacks came from a third-party and not from the Notepad++ team.
The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...
Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update ...
Chinese state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising Notepad++ update infrastructure in a hosting-level breach and selectively infecting users with malware.
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
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.
Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported ...
It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider ...
The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.