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

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

The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS App, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) that’s ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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