Homeland Security Today

The Missing LNK — Correlating User Search LNK Files

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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Cyber-criminals Shift From Macros to Shortcut Files to Hack Business PCs, HP Reports

Cyber-criminals spreading malware families are shifting to shortcut (LNK) files to deliver malware, HP Wolf Security’s latest report suggests. According to the new research, shortcuts are gradually ...
CSOonline

Windows shortcuts’ use as a vector for malware may be cut short

A third-party patch management company is cutting short attackers’ use of LNK files to smuggle in malicious commands, while Microsoft prefers to tell the whole story. A longstanding problem with the ...
Bleeping Computer

As Microsoft blocks Office macros, hackers find new attack vectors

Hackers who normally distributed malware via phishing attachments with malicious macros gradually changed tactics after Microsoft Office began blocking them by default, switching to new file types ...
Security Boulevard

APT37 Adds New Capabilities for Air-Gapped Networks

IntroductionIn December 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a campaign linked to APT37 (also known as ScarCruft, Ruby Sleet, and Velvet Chollima), which is a DPRK-backed threat group. In this campaign ...
Computerworld

Critical Windows vuln. in .LNK files = Stuxnet (and IE IV)

Eeek! All versions of Microsoft Windows have a nasty shortcut-file vulnerability, it has emerged. Simply displaying the icon of a crafty .LNK file will cause malware infection. The Stuxnet worm has ...