Black Cat cybercrime group used SEO poisoning and fake software downloads to infect nearly 278,000 systems in China with data ...

Sessions in Notepad++ grab the complete state of your workspace. A session file saves the full paths of all open documents, ...

When working with HTML files in Notepad++, many users expect to open the current file directly in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox using the Run option. However, Chrome and Firefox do not appear by ...

Notepad++ is a fast, lightweight, and highly efficient source code editor designed for developers, system administrators, students, and power users working on Windows systems. Built on the Scintilla ...

Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors on Windows, has rolled out version 8.8.9 to patch a serious security flaw that allowed attackers to hijack its update process and push malicious ...

A security vulnerability in the Notepad++ update mechanism has been exploited to spread malicious code. What began as a report within the Notepad++ community at the end of October was later confirmed ...

Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s updater. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported in early December that a ...

The issue surfaced when a community user saw GUP.exe, Notepad++’s updater, spawn an unexpected AutoUpdater.exe file in the Temp folder. Instead of fetching a routine patch, the program ran commands to ...

PSA: Notepad++ users who haven't yet updated to version 8.8.9 or later should manually download the latest installer as soon as possible. Following reports of malicious activity, a December 2025 ...

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...

This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are warning that the Notepad++ updater, which goes by the name WinGUp, links to malware servers. This is a case of traffic ...