State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

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

Chinese state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising Notepad++ update infrastructure in a hosting-level breach and selectively infecting users with malware.

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

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

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.

Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

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