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.

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 ...

Don Ho, the programmer behind the popular Windows text and source code editor Notepad++, says Chinese government hackers spent half a year hijacking the tool's software updates. The state-sponsored ...

Notepad++ 7.6.5 has been released and is now being signed with a GPG signature so that users who download the program can verify its authenticity. In March, Notepad++ developer Don Ho stated that ...

Notepad is the default text editor found in Windows computers. Every .txt file is configured to open directly in Notepad. It has paved the way for text editors over quite some time now, in which ...