The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.

In the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there are several instances ...

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called ...

The Justice Department says their review into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is done, with the release of millions of ...

Rapid7 dropped a write-up on the Notepad++ update-chain abuse and - finally - it comes with real IOCs - update.exe downloaded ...

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software ...

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

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 ...

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

Today, in a post titled "Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers," Notepad++ confirmed the app had fallen victim to ...