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

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

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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