Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...

Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.

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. The ...

Clicking the malicious links could launch "unverified protocols." ...

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.

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Notepad++, a free open source text and code editor for the Windows operating system, suffered an "infrastructure-level compromise" last year by threat actors seeking to deliver malware to selected ...

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

Hackers targeted the hosting provider for notepad-plus-plus.org, the official domain for the text editor, rather than the program itself. That paved the way for them to redirect a download link to ...