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

According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution ...

A command injection flaw in the Windows Notepad App now gives remote attackers a path to execute code over a network, turning ...

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

Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

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

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...

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Microsoft has patched the Windows Notepad remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-20841, warning users to install ...

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