Picture this: you’re in the middle of a video call, and your colleague shares a critical data chart or a brilliant slide on their screen. If you use a Windows PC, you already have one of the simplest, ...

To enable or use the search results window in Notepad++, you can use the Find All feature window. The window is not a feature you toggle on in the settings. It is a results panel that only appears ...

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of ...

Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update infrastructure was compromised for nearly six months. Developers say suspected China ...

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported that bad actors were hijacking its update mechanism to redirect traffic to ...

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 ...

Notepad++ update process hijacked for targeted cyberespionage Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 links attack to Chinese group Lotus Blossom China denies involvement, citing lack of evidence Feb 2 (Reuters) - ...

Notepad++ reported that its built-in auto-update feature had been hijacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers from June to September of 2025, and the credentials gathered by the bas actors enabled ...

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 ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] ...