Windows now displays in the properties tab of LNK files critical information that could reveal malicious code.

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 ...

They can be very powerful. Shortcuts can execute commands, load external DLLs, and run hidden scripts—all without the user ...

Microsoft released a new patch for the LNK vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet after it learned original patch from 2010 failed and left Windows machines exposed. A five-year-old Microsoft patch for ...

An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro in Windows has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there's no sign of a fix from Microsoft, which apparently considers this a low priority.

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 ...

Microsoft has updated their advisory for the recently-disclosed shortcut-handling vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows. A "Fix-it" is now provided to implement the workaround for the ...