The number of ways that Windows shortcut (.LNK) files can be abused just keeps growing: A cybersecurity researcher has documented four new techniques to trick Windows users into running malicious ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in exploits, defenders might have hoped use of this tactic would decline. They were ...

Researchers revealed a Phorpiex-distributed phishing campaign using malicious LNK files to deploy Global Group ransomware designed to operate entirely offline. Forcepoint X-Labs researchers have ...

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 ...