Malicious actors served fake Notepad++ updates via the official site from June to December 2025. Older Notepad++ versions lacked update verification, letting targets get malware—upgrade to v8.9.1.
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 ...
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 ...
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