India, Sept. 29 -- A new exploit has been found that allows attackers to use Notepad, one of the most trusted applications on Windows, to elevate their privileges to an administrator and bypass security. Experts say this local privilege escalation vulnerability will be a big deal in 2025 attacks.

A new Windows exploit has repurposed Notepad, which has been thought of as a benign text editor for years, as the attacker's tool. Security researchers say an attacker can hijack Notepad to raise their privileges to an administrator and bypass embedded security. This local privilege escalation vulnerability may not sound very exciting, but expert engineers think it will be a key part of 2025 attacks for ransomware, espionage, and insider threats...