You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.
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Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...
Today is Microsoft' 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 58 flaws, including 6 actively exploited and three publicly ...
Microsoft patched a critical Notepad vulnerability allowing system hijack via malicious Markdown files, urging immediate Windows updates..
Microsoft just patched a serious vulnerability in Notepad for Windows that could allow hackers to take control of victims' ...
According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution vulnerabilities, three denial of service vulnerabilities, five security feature ...
The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run malicious code on a Windows PC.
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