{"id":990396,"date":"2026-02-07T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990396"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:58:55","slug":"popular-open-source-coding-application-targeted-in-chinese-linked-supply-chain-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/popular-open-source-coding-application-targeted-in-chinese-linked-supply-chain-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular open-source coding application targeted in Chinese-linked supply-chain attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked \u2060the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware to targeted users, the program&#8217;s developer and cybersecurity researchers said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Don Ho, the French-based developer of Notepad++, said in a blog posted to the project&#8217;s website on \u200cMonday that malicious actors had \u200ctargeted the update process for certain targeted users beginning in June 2025. The hackers had access to the hosting server used for Notepad++ updates until September \u200c2, 2025, but maintained credentials to some hosting services until December 2, 2025, according to Ho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked \u2060the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware to targeted users, the program&#8217;s developer and cybersecurity researchers said on Monday. Don Ho, the French-based developer of Notepad++, said in a blog posted to the project&#8217;s website on \u200cMonday that malicious actors had \u200ctargeted the update process for certain targeted users beginning in June 2025. The hackers had access to the hosting server used for Notepad++ updates until September \u200c2, 2025, but maintained credentials to some hosting services until December 2, 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990396","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}