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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 ...

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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 ...

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.

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively terminated” by December 2nd. The Notepad++ updater has been updated itself with ...

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

It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider ...