The LNK vulnerability was used to launch remote code execution in cyber-espionage, data theft, and fraud attacks.
Microsoft has silently mitigated a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability exploited by multiple state-backed and cybercrime ...
In other words, these shortcut files are crafted such that viewing their properties in Windows conceals the malicious ...
Microsoft has silently mitigated CVE-2025-9491, a Windows vulnerability exploited to distribute malware via LNK files ...
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a partial mitigation for the high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability, CVE-2025-9491, which ...
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9491, allowed cybercriminals to hide malicious commands from users inspecting files through ...
Forensic investigators use LNK shortcut files to recover metadata about recently accessed files, including files deleted after the time of access. In a recent investigation, FireEye Mandiant ...
Malware researchers have noticed a new tool that helps cybercriminals build malicious .LNK files to deliver payloads for the initial stages of an attack. LNKs are Windows shortcut files that can ...