Ars Technica

Help! All shortcuts turned into .Ink files and associated with Acrobat X??

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.
Homeland Security Today

The Missing LNK — Correlating User Search LNK Files

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 ...
heise online

Windows: Zero-day gap in the LNK display

The Zero Day Initiative classifies a vulnerability in the display of the contents of LNK files in Windows as high-risk. Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) has published information on a ...
CSOonline

Windows shortcuts’ use as a vector for malware may be cut short

A third-party patch management company is cutting short attackers’ use of LNK files to smuggle in malicious commands, while Microsoft prefers to tell the whole story. A longstanding problem with the ...