For nearly half a year, one of the world’s most widely used text editors quietly sat at the center of a supply-chain attack that few users ever saw coming. Notepad++ has confirmed that a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group compromised […]

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The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.

The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.