A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.… The admission comes after version 8.8.9 of the text editor was released on December ...
In light of the recent compromise of Notepad++'s update mechanisms, it is worth examining a common pattern in enterprise environments: the belief that using an application’s internal update mechanisms ...
A likely China-sponsored threat actor hijacked Notepad++'s software update mechanism and quietly redirected targeted users of the popular source code editor to malicious downloads for nearly six ...