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 ...

Microsoft’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday fixed 63 flaws, including CVE-2025-9491 in Windows LNK files The bug let attackers hide malicious commands in shortcut files, enabling RCE attacks Exploited ...

Hi all. Somehow 1 of my users has turned all the shortcut files, desktop, start menu etc. Into .lnk files which when clicked are associate with Acrobat X. Recreating the shortcut file does not fix it.

Shortcuts (LNK files) in Windows are indicated by curved arrows. We often treat them as background noise and don't consider what they actually do beyond opening apps. In fact, there is a huge gap ...

North Korea's APT37 threat group is providing fresh evidence of how adversaries have pivoted to using LNK, or shortcut files, to distribute malicious payloads after Microsoft began blocking macros by ...

Barriers that Microsoft has placed to prevent malicious macros has forced some cybercriminals to use LNK files for malware delivery, but at the cost of easier detection. For years attackers have used ...

It's not particularly surprising, as that bit of code doesn't actually seem to contain the malware. It's shady as all fuck, but it depends on the existence of the .lnk file to actually do anything. If ...

Today, at Wild West Hackin' Fest, security researcher Wietze Beukema disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Windows LK shortcut files that allow attackers to deploy malicious payloads. Beukema ...