The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...

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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

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.

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