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

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

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

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