diff --git a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.html b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.html
index 8d2d8b25c9..fbf00c7dd7 100644
--- a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.html
+++ b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.html
@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@
       <div class="tb-iot-hub-item-link-text">
         <span class="tb-iot-hub-item-link-name">{{ item.name }}</span>
         <span class="tb-iot-hub-item-link-author">
-          <mat-icon>person</mat-icon>
+          @if (item.creatorVerified) {
+            <mat-icon class="tb-iot-hub-item-link-verified-icon">verified</mat-icon>
+          } @else {
+            <mat-icon>person</mat-icon>
+          }
           {{ item.creatorDisplayName }}
         </span>
       </div>
diff --git a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.scss b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.scss
index 2713303d6c..cdf4005199 100644
--- a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.scss
+++ b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-item-link-card/iot-hub-item-link-card.component.scss
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
     background: rgba(4, 138, 211, 0.04);
     border-color: rgba(4, 138, 211, 0.32);
     box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06);
+    .tb-iot-hub-item-link-name, .tb-iot-hub-item-link-author {
+      text-decoration: underline;
+    }
   }
 
   &--unavailable {
@@ -128,6 +131,11 @@
     width: 14px;
     height: 14px;
   }
+
+  // Verified-creator accent — matches the item card chip color.
+  .tb-iot-hub-item-link-verified-icon {
+    color: #00695c;
+  }
 }
 
 .tb-iot-hub-item-link-skeleton-block,
diff --git a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.scss b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.scss
index 57e3d25101..be2ab69a76 100644
--- a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.scss
+++ b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.scss
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ $gallery-border-hover-color: #2a7dec;
       max-width: 100%;
     }
 
-    a:not(.mdc-button) {
+    a:not(.mdc-button):not(.tb-iot-hub-item-link-card) {
       font-weight: 500;
       color: $link-color;
       text-decoration: none;
diff --git a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.ts b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.ts
index 57df5a8074..a63d17c914 100644
--- a/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.ts
+++ b/ui-ngx/src/app/modules/home/components/iot-hub/iot-hub-markdown.component.ts
@@ -109,9 +109,36 @@ export class TbIotHubMarkdownComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {
     parsed = replaceItemLinkPlaceholders(parsed);
     parsed = this.resolveImages(parsed);
     parsed = this.resolveVariables(parsed);
+    parsed = this.forceLinksOpenInNewTab(parsed);
     return parsed;
   }
 
+  // Ensure every link rendered through tb-markdown opens in a new tab.
+  //  1) For markdown links `[text](url)` — append the
+  //     `{:target="_blank"}` suffix to the link TEXT (not the URL)
+  //     so MarkedOptionsService.renderer.link, which checks
+  //     `token.text.endsWith(targetBlankBlock)`, emits
+  //     `target="_blank"` on the rendered <a>. Skip links whose
+  //     text already ends with the suffix and skip image syntax
+  //     (`![alt](url)`).
+  //  2) For raw <a ...> HTML anchors authored in the markdown — add
+  //     `target="_blank"` when no `target=` attribute is already
+  //     present.
+  private forceLinksOpenInNewTab(content: string): string {
+    const TARGET_BLANK_BLOCK = '{:target="_blank"}';
+    content = content.replace(
+      /(?<!!)\[([^\]]*?)]\(([^)]+)\)/g,
+      (match, text: string, url: string) =>
+        text.endsWith(TARGET_BLANK_BLOCK) ? match : `[${text}${TARGET_BLANK_BLOCK}](${url})`
+    );
+    content = content.replace(
+      /<a\b([^>]*)>/gi,
+      (match, attrs: string) =>
+        /\btarget\s*=/i.test(attrs) ? match : `<a${attrs} target="_blank">`
+    );
+    return content;
+  }
+
   private prefixResourceUrls(markdown: string): string {
     const baseUrl = this.iotHubApiService.baseUrl;
     return markdown.replace(/([("])(\/api\/resources\/[^)"]*)/g, `$1${baseUrl}$2`);