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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 added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Microsoft’s new AI Notepad just opened a terrifyingly easy hacker loophole

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

Microsoft: Critical Security Issue Found in Windows Notepad

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

Windows Notepad is now complex enough to have a serious security flaw

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...
Forbes

Securing Software In The GenAI Coding Era

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has very quickly established a foothold among code developers as an essential tool in their workflow. Developers have shifted from the traditional code reuse ...
Business Wire

AI-Generated Code Poses Major Security Risks in Nearly Half of All Development Tasks, Veracode Research Reveals

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracode, a global leader in application risk management, today unveiled its 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, revealing critical security flaws in AI-generated code ...