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