State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six ...

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, ...

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively terminated” by December 2nd. The Notepad++ updater has been updated itself with ...

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

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

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

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

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

Note: jsrun is under development. Expect breaking changes between minor versions. One of the most compelling use cases for jsrun is building safe execution environments for AI agents. When LLMs ...

StayAwake is a simple, lightweight plugin for Notepad++ that enables you to maintain an Active status on Microsoft Teams (and perhaps other messaging applications such as Slack and Zoom). StayAwake ...