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 ...
Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
By AJ Vicens Feb 2 (Reuters) - A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the ...
A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group named Lotus Blossom hijacked the update process of Notepad++ to target specific users. Gaining access in June 2025, they maintained control until December that ...
The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve the issue.
The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...