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 ...

Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised ...

There are plenty of indie, third-party alternatives to standard Windows apps, many of them much-loved by power users. Take Notepad++, a text editor that’s a potent upgrade to Windows’ basic Notepad, ...

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

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 ...