To the surprise of almost nobody, the unprecedented build-out of datacenters and the equipping of them with servers for ...

Sessions in Notepad++ grab the complete state of your workspace. A session file saves the full paths of all open documents, ...

This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are warning that the Notepad++ updater, which goes by the name WinGUp, links to malware servers. This is a case of traffic ...

The updater integrated into Notepad++ has allowed itself to be infiltrated by malware, which has been installed on some PCs. The developer of the powerful open-source text editor is responding with an ...

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...

PSA: Notepad++ users who haven't yet updated to version 8.8.9 or later should manually download the latest installer as soon as possible. Following reports of malicious activity, a December 2025 ...

This iceberg in Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, is one of many frozen sights in the country. Photograph by Frans Lanting, Nat Geo Image Collection Craters at Lake Myvatn in Iceland are among the ...

Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s updater. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported in early December that a ...

Hackers are abusing Notepad++, a popular text and source code editor, to deliver malware. The app’s updater, WinGUp, can be tricked by an attacker-in-the-middle to pull compromised executables from ...

Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors on Windows, has rolled out version 8.8.9 to patch a serious security flaw that allowed attackers to hijack its update process and push malicious ...

Notepad++ is a fast, lightweight, and highly efficient source code editor designed for developers, system administrators, students, and power users working on Windows systems. Built on the Scintilla ...

StayAwake is a simple, lightweight plugin for Notepad++ that enables you to maintain an Active status on Microsoft Teams (and perhaps other messaging applications such as Slack and Zoom). StayAwake ...