Learn how to remove Copilot from Windows 11, including Edge, Search, Photos, Notepad, File Explorer, Paint, and other ...

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

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

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.

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

The widely used, open source text-editing software Notepad++ for Windows said attackers exploited a vulnerability to redirect ...

Rapid7 dropped a write-up on the Notepad++ update-chain abuse and - finally - it comes with real IOCs - update.exe downloaded ...

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

Notepad++ updates were hijacked in a state-sponsored attack, with China-linked hackers redirecting downloads to malicious servers.

Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.

Notepad++ released version 8.8.9 in December, which checks digital signatures and certificates before installing any updates.

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