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State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious ...

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

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 ...

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