As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in ...

A recent supply-chain-style intrusion has put a spotlight on a familiar truth in cybersecurity: attackers don’t always need to hack end users directly—they can compromise the places users trust. In ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

Notepad++ is in the news again, though it's more of a mixed bag than its last report. In short, an unlicensed Mac OS port was released for Notepad++, which is usually Windows and Linux-exclusive. In ...

The developer of the popular Windows app Notepad++ has warned users not to be fooled by a copycat site that is ranking highly on Google. Notepad++ is a text and code editor that’s been available for ...

The popular free text editor Notepad++ has a serious problem: its updater infects computers with malware. There's a fix though. This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are ...

The Notepad++ project is seeking the public's help in taking down a copycat website that closely impersonates Notepad++ but is not affiliated with the project. Although, at the time of writing, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported that bad actors were hijacking its update mechanism to redirect traffic to ...

Notepad++ malware: CERT-UA warns Russia-aligned UAC-0099 is hiding LUNCHPOKE, BURNYBEAR, and MATCHBOIL.V2 inside a fake plugin bundled with Notepad++ 8.8.3, targeting Ukrainian defense organizations ...

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 ...