Microsoft’s effort to modernize the humble Notepad app has come with a cost: Security researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in the program following a feature update.
The flaw, which Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday, can be exploited to run malicious code on a Windows PC. The company warns that a hacker could weaponize the vulnerability by embedding a malicious link into a file opened by Notepad, “causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and…

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