State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.
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 ...
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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
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Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update ...
The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...
It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider ...
Notepad++ update servers were compromised for 6 months in 2025. Learn how the Chrysalis backdoor targeted users and why you must manually update to version 8.9.1 now.