Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.
Notepad++ 8.9.2 fixes update hijack exploited to deliver malware, patches RCE flaw, and hardens WinGUp security.
Notepad++ improves security mechanisms and closes a new vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code.
The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ...
This method is so much easier.
Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.
Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...
Why can't it just be a basic text editor?!
Notepad has quietly evolved over the past few years, and image support could mark its biggest shift yet, especially after Microsoft removed WordPad from Windows and left a gap for richer editing.
Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M ...
Is Notepad getting too bloated these days? If you're of that opinion, you won't like what Microsoft has planned next.