Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious downloads since June 2025.

Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates, fixed in v8.8.9 ...

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

It cuts through the manual labor in no time ...

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