Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...

The hosting provider's compromise allowed attackers to deliver malware through tainted software updates for six months.

By AJ Vicens Feb 2 (Reuters) - A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and ...

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...

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The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

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 ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...