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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Notepad++ has confirmed it was the victim of a highly targeted and sophisticated cyberattack, most likely conducted by a ...

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

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

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