A China-linked hacking group is exploiting a Windows zero-day in attacks targeting European diplomats in Hungary, Belgium, ...

Two Windows vulnerabilities—one a zero-day that has been known to attackers since 2017 and the other a critical flaw that Microsoft initially tried and failed to patch recently—are under active ...

Chinese threat actor exploiting an unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability in fresh attacks targeting the diplomatic ...

UNC6384 is a Chinese-linked cyber espionage group identified by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) in August 2025. The ...

Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity, Cyber Espionage, Malware, PlugX, Data Breach, Vulnerability, Phishing, European Union, Threat Intelligence ...

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.

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 ...

An actively exploited security bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is being exploited in a new stealer campaign to download malicious executables on the victim’s system. Tracked as ...

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.