Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

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 ...

Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware

More than 230 malicious packages for the personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and ClawdBot) have been ...
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Teen hacks Apple and stashes files in folder named 'hacky hack hack'

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Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Google has warned that well-known and already-patched exploit for the WinRAR file archiving and compression tool for Windows ...
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This month in security with Tony Anscombe – January 2026 edition The trends that emerged in January offer useful clues about the risks and priorities that security teams are likely to contend with ...