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

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Notepad++ has shared additional details on the supply chain attack carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers via a ...

A months-long supply chain attack that affected the Notepad++ update process has been linked to a compromise of shared hosting infrastructure rather than a flaw in the software's code. This according ...

Notepad has lately fallen out of favor with a lot of Windows users. I stumbled on a new open-source alternative that you ...

Microsoft is meddling with Notepad again, this time adding a "What's New" screen so users know the latest indignities heaped on the once-humble text editor.

A fresh wave of ransomware activity is being fueled by an uncomfortable mix of software supply-chain risk, rapidly weaponized zero-day ...

Microsoft has decided that Windows 11 is an ideal launch pad for an update to Notepad. The venerable utility will now receive a new dark mode as well as some practical improvements. However, not ...

For years, we've been able to freely use all the features in Windows apps like Notepad and Paint. But those days seem to be gone. Yes, the core features are still freely accessible, but the latest AI ...

Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is giving its Notepad app for Windows a surprising amount of new ...