State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.
It's believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider disagree on the exact timings), a shared hosting server was compromised, ...
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 ...
Notepad++ targeted and used to deliver poisoned updates to a select group of victims.
The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.