You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.

High-severity flaw fixed in Windows 11 Notepad ...

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be ...

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The vulnerability comes from the way Notepad handles Markdown hyperlinks. Attackers craft malicious .md files with embedded ...

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