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 ...

In light of the recent compromise of Notepad++'s update mechanisms, it is worth examining a common pattern in enterprise environments: the belief that using an application’s internal update mechanisms ...

A likely China-sponsored threat actor hijacked Notepad++'s software update mechanism and quietly redirected targeted users of the popular source code editor to malicious downloads for nearly six ...