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

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.

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

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

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...

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

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

Notepad++, one of Windows' most widely used text editors, has confirmed a major security breach after its update infrastructure was compromised for nearly six months. Developers say suspected China ...

Chinese hackers compromised Notepad++ updates for six months, deploying a backdoor to selectively target users in government ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is likely to have involved a Chinese state-sponsored group.

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...