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

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

I deeply apologize to all users affected by this hijacking,” the author of a post published to the official notepad-plus-plus.org site wrote Monday. The post said that the attack began last June with ...

Chinese state-sponsored hackers are suspected of compromising Notepad++ update infrastructure in a hosting-level breach and selectively infecting users with malware.

Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update ...

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