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

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With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Jen Karner has spent the last 10 years ...

Notepad++ users faced a serious threat as Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised update servers for half of 2025, ...

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

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