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Microsoft Windows Cyberattack Warning — Do Not Open These Files
You have been warned — do not open these highly dangerous Windows files.
ForbesDo Not Answer These Calls - Google Issues New Smartphone WarningBy Davey Winder ZDI-CAN-25373, the Windows LNK file vulnerability in question, has already been seen being exploited in zero-day attacks by cybercriminal and state-sponsored actors, according to security researchers at Trend Micro. What this means is that attackers can apply additional characters in the target field, things like spaces and line breaks for example, so that the user only sees the legitimate-looking path and has no cause for concern that anything is amiss. “Only the first part of the path is shown in the shortcut’s properties,” Kolesnikov reiterated, adding that “the target field might include arguments at the end of the line that trigger a request to download a payload using powershell.exe.”
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