Rapid7 links China-linked Lotus Blossom to a 2025 Notepad++ hosting breach that delivered the Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked ...

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 ...

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

A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group named Lotus Blossom hijacked the update process of Notepad++ to target specific users. Gaining access in June 2025, they maintained control until December that ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...

Previously Clawdbot and then Moltbot, this agent can take actions without you having to prompt it and make those decisions by accessing large swaths of your digital life.