Microsoft has silently mitigated CVE-2025-9491, a Windows vulnerability exploited to distribute malware via LNK files ...

Microsoft has released a patch for link (LNK) files. However, it does not stop hackers from abusing them to deliver malware.

Microsoft Windows users have been urgently warned about a dangerous cyberattack that can exploit a longstanding, unresolved security flaw involving Windows LNK files. As per a report in Forbes, citing ...

In other words, these shortcut files are crafted such that viewing their properties in Windows conceals the malicious ...

A recent attack campaign by one of North Korea’s state-run hacking groups uses a new PowerShell and VBScript-based attack chain that’s initiated from inside LNK files. Multiple attack stages are ...