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++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...
The cybersecurity community is still grappling with a sobering realization: one of the most ubiquitous tools in the developer’s toolkit, Notepad++, was hiding a critical vulnerability for over six ...
Notepad++ improves security mechanisms and closes a new vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code.
A fresh wave of ransomware activity is being fueled by an uncomfortable mix of software supply-chain risk, rapidly weaponized zero-day ...
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 ...
You can install Notepad++ on Linux using an unofficial Snap package with the command "sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus". The Snap package uses the Wine ...
The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ...
Using Notepadd++ as a source code editor makes writing, editing and comparing code simple. The software supports several languages, and works in both the Microsoft Windows and the Mac iOS environments ...
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 ...
On Windows 11, when it comes to text editors, usually, only two apps come to mind, Notepad and Notepad++. Even though many would consider Notepad++ to be a superior application, Microsoft has been ...
Numbered lines make Notepad++ an excellent text editor for programmers. Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something ...