Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...
Notepad++ released a security patch to reinforce its update process with a “double-lock” design after a sophisticated ...
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...
The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ...
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.
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 ...