Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared ...

Paste Protect offers the first native defense against 'ClickFix clipboard attacks.

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. "These installers are ...

On February 11, 2026, NSFOCUS CERT monitored Microsoft’s release of its February security update patches, addressing 59 security issues across widely used products such as Windows, Azure, Microsoft ...

The Story of Notepad Evolving Too Much and Developing a Weakness When you think of Windows Notepad, it has always been a super simple design that is "lightweight and just for typing text." I was very ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

There has been a continuing problem where traffic from WinGUp, an updater for the text editor Notepad++, was being redirected to malicious domains and distributing malware, and it has now been ...

The popular open-source text editor Notepad++ was targeted in a sophisticated supply chain attack that allowed Chinese state-sponsored hackers to deliver malware through compromised software updates, ...

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] ...

In 2024, ESET researchers noticed previously undocumented malware in the network of a Southeast Asian governmental entity. This led us to uncover even more new malware on the same system, none of ...

PSA: Notepad++ users who haven't yet updated to version 8.8.9 or later should manually download the latest installer as soon as possible. Following reports of malicious activity, a December 2025 ...