{"id":10338,"date":"2026-02-02T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad-updates-6-months\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:53:25","slug":"chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad-updates-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad-updates-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor&#8217;s hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious downloads.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad-updates-6-months\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor&#8217;s hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious downloads. Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-10338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}