For nearly half a year, the ubiquitous text editor Notepad++ inadvertently disseminated malicious payloads rather than legitimate refinements. This incursion remained veiled from June through December 2025, subverting the update mechanism of a utility...
The lead developer of the ubiquitous text editor Notepad++ has disclosed a formidable security breach that compromised the application’s update mechanism. State-sponsored adversaries successfully intercepted the update verification process, clandestinely rerouting users toward malicious...
Notepad++ has released version 8.8.9 to remediate a weakness in its WinGUp (GUP.exe) update mechanism. Researchers and users had reported incidents in which the updater, instead of fetching a legitimate installer, downloaded and executed...
