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Notepad++ Users Potentially Hacked by China-Linked Group

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++, a widely used text editor for Windows, was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers, developers revealed Monday. The attackers allegedly used their control to deliver backdoored versions of the app to select targets.

According to a post published on the official notepad-plus-plus.org site, the attack began in June of last year with an infrastructure-level compromise. This allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The author of the post wrote, "I deeply apologize to all users affected by this hijacking."

Multiple investigators tied the attackers to the Chinese government. They selectively redirected certain targeted users to malicious update servers. The motive behind the attack remains under investigation.

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