Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

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

"LF" and "CR" exist in the line feed code, and Windows uses "CR + LF" using these two as a line feed code. Windows Notepad recognizes only "CR + LF" as a line feed, so if you open a file with the line ...

Microsoft's Notepad has been around for over four decades. The simple text editor has remained largely unchanged for much of that time, though it has seen a surge in development of late. For example, ...