You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.
The Register on MSN
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 ...
Notepad++ 8.9.2 fixes update hijack exploited to deliver malware, patches RCE flaw, and hardens WinGUp security.
Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.
Microsoft has fixed a serious security vulnerability affecting Markdown files in Notepad. In the company’s Tuesday patch ...
The vulnerability comes from the way Notepad handles Markdown hyperlinks. Attackers craft malicious .md files with embedded ...
XDA Developers on MSN
Microsoft patches critical Notepad flaw that exploited Markdown files
Clicking the malicious links could launch "unverified protocols." ...
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