State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

Notepad++ users may have downloaded malware instead of a software update for half of 2025. Developer Don Ho confirmed on ...

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

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...

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Once the forgotten child of Windows' armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it's gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state ...