The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author.

As AI services increasingly connect to wider parts of the web and more external apps, the risk of so-called “prompt injection ...

Notepad++ 8.9.2 fixes update hijack exploited to deliver malware, patches RCE flaw, and hardens WinGUp security.

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...

Lockdown Mode enhances the protection against prompt injections and other advanced threats. With this setting enabled, ChatGPT is limited in the ways it can interact with external systems and data, ...