Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

Notepad++ was hijacked by bad actors in 2025. Here's what you need to know.

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...
Microsoft

New Clickfix variant ‘CrashFix’ deploying Python Remote Access Trojan

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.
TweakTown

Notepad++ hack detailed - and what to do if you think you might be affected

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

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

By launching a desktop app, OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic’s popular Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version.

I used ChatGPT to build a Moltbot and get on Moltbook — here's exactly how I did it

I used ChatGPT to build a Moltbot and get accepted onto Moltbook. Here’s a step-by-step look at what I did, what went wrong, ...
American Hospital Association

Open-source text program Notepad++ impacted by critical vulnerability

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Feb. 2 published details on a critical vulnerability that impacted Notepad++, a free, open-source text and source code program widely used by several ...