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

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

Notepad has lately fallen out of favor with a lot of Windows users. I stumbled on a new open-source alternative that you ...

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