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

It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider disagree on the exact timings), a shared hosting server was compromised, ...

Notepad++ users may have downloaded malware instead of a software update for half of 2025. Developer Don Ho confirmed on Monday that Chinese state-spo.

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

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

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

Notepad++ faced a security breach last year, with reports of updates being compromised by suspected Chinese hackers for a six-month period. The developer has since addressed and fixed the ...

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

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...

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 ...

Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 are getting yet more updates, but Microsoft should really be focusing on other in-box ...

Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs ...