About Remote Code Execution – Windows LNK File (CVE-2025-9491) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Windows LNK File CVE-2025-9491 vulnerability. A vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows shortcut .LNK handling mechanism allows malicious command-line arguments to be hidden in the Target field using whitespace characters, making them invisible to standard tools...

Windows shortcut following (.LNK) vulnerability in Trend Micro Security for Windows (CVE-2025-52521)

Overview Trend Micro Incorporated has released a security update for Trend Micro Security for Windows CVE-2025-52521. Trend Micro Incorporated reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC to notify users of its solution through JVN. Impact Arbitrary files or folders may be deleted due to a windows...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Password Manager for Windows (CVE-2025-48443, CVE-2025-52837)

Overview Trend Micro Incorporated has released a security update for Trend Micro Password Manager for Windows. Trend Micro Incorporated reported these vulnerabilities to JPCERT/CC to notify users of the solutions through JVN. Impact Arbitrary files may be deleted during the product installation d...

LemonDuck no longer settles for breadcrumbs

LemonDuck has evolved from a Monero cryptominer into LemonCat, a Trojan that specializes in backdoor installation, credential and data theft, and malware delivery, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, which explained their findings in a two-part story 12 on the...

CVE-2019-1188 LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Microsoft Windows LNK File Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'LNK Code Execution Vulnerability', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of Windows Shortcut files .LNK that...

LNK Code Execution Vulnerability

This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of Windows Shortcut files .LNK that contain a dynamic icon, loaded from a malicious DLL. This vulnerability is a variant of MS15-020 CVE-2015-0096. The created LNK file is similar except an additional SpecialFolderDataBlock is included. The...

Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...

Podcast Discussing the Windows LNK Patch

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the new patch for the five-year-old LNK vulnerability used by Stuxnet, the new iOS patches and the other news of the week. Download: digitalunderground191.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Details Surface on Stuxnet Patch Bypass

It took 10 hours to find what had eluded others for close to five years. German computer science student Michael Heerklotz spent the Christmas holiday reading Countdown to Zero Day, a narrative on the discovery and impact of Stuxnet, the computer worm considered one of the first cyberweapons, and...

Patched Windows Machines Exposed to Stuxnet LNK Flaw All Along

A five-year-old Microsoft patch for the .LNK vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet failed to properly protect Windows machines, leaving them exposed to exploits since 2010. Microsoft today is expected to release a security bulletin, MS15-020, patching the vulnerability CVE-2015-0096. It is unknown...

Massive, Decades-Long Cyberespionage Framework Uncovered

CANCUN–Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a cyberespionage group that has been operating for at least 15 years and has worked with and supported the attackers behind Stuxnet, Flame and other highly sophisticated operations. The attackers, known as the Equation Group, used two of the zero...

Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Flaw

Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn’t identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for...

Microsoft Releases FixIt Tool for LNK Flaw

Microsoft has released a FixIt tool for the unpatched LNK Windows shell vulnerability and also has updated its guidance on how to deal with the flaw. The company also said it is continuing to work on developing a patch for the vulnerability. The FixIt tool that Microsoft published Tuesday mitigat...