Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author.

Notepad++'s updater usually pops up, but users can also prompt it by selecting the "?" dropdown in the taskbar. Christopher Harper is a tech writer with over a decade of experience writing how-tos and ...

Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of ...

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 ...