{"id":989817,"date":"2026-02-04T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989817"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:58:06","slug":"how-chinese-hackers-used-notepad-to-spy-on-companies-doing-business-in-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/how-chinese-hackers-used-notepad-to-spy-on-companies-doing-business-in-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese hackers used Notepad++ to spy on companies doing business in East Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notepad++ users may have downloaded malware instead of a software update for half of 2025. Developer Don Ho confirmed on Monday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had compromised the text editor&#8217;s update servers between June and December.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers didn&#8217;t hit everyone. They picked their targets carefully\u2014organisations with business interests in East Asia. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont spoke with three victims who said hackers gained direct keyboard access to their machines through the tainted updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notepad++ users may have downloaded malware instead of a software update for half of 2025. Developer Don Ho confirmed on Monday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had compromised the text editor&#8217;s update servers between June and December. The attackers didn&#8217;t hit everyone. They picked their targets carefully\u2014organisations with business interests in East Asia. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont spoke with three victims who said hackers gained direct keyboard access to their machines through the tainted updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}