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

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.

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...

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

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...

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

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.

Attackers had specifically delivered malware to systems using the Notepad++ updater. Investigations point to state actors.

Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

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Microsoft is reportedly expanding Notepad on Windows 11 with Copilot-powered text streaming and richer Markdown support, ...