Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...
Notepad++ users faced a serious threat as Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised update servers for half of 2025, distributing malware named Chrysalis. Targeting organizations with East Asian ...
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
A likely China-sponsored threat actor hijacked Notepad++'s software update mechanism and quietly redirected targeted users of the popular source code editor to malicious downloads for nearly six ...
The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...
PCWorld reports that Notepad++’s WinGUp update system was compromised between June and December 2025, delivering malware through corrupted executables to targeted users. While the popular text editor ...
If you use Notepad++, it's time to update. Hackers compromised the free text and coding editor to distribute a malicious update via the auto-update function. Notepad++ developer Don Ho detected the ...
TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...