State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.
The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.
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The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.
Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...
The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Feb. 2 published details on a critical vulnerability that impacted Notepad++, a free, open-source text and source code program widely used by several ...
It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider ...