Notepad, one of the oldest and most reliable apps in the Windows ecosystem, has been undergoing some big changes during the Copilot AI era. Unfortunately, one of its new features was prone to a ...

In this post, we will show you how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11. Plain text editing should be simple and quick. For years, Notepad filled that role on Windows by doing just one ...

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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 ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

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PCWorld reports that Notepad++’s WinGUp update system was compromised between June and December 2025, delivering malware through corrupted executables to targeted users. While the popular text editor ...

If you use Notepad++, it's time to update. Hackers compromised the free text and coding editor to distribute a malicious update via the auto-update function. Notepad++ developer Don Ho detected the ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...