Russian CTRL toolkit spread via malicious LNK files in February 2026, routing C2 through FRP-tunneled RDP to evade detection.

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“I can’t thank you enough for including me in an evening I’ll never forget,” Brad Karp, then the chair of the national law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, wrote in an email to Jeffrey ...

The number of ways that Windows shortcut (.LNK) files can be abused just keeps growing: A cybersecurity researcher has documented four new techniques to trick Windows users into running malicious ...

Bannon has not been implicated in the sort of sexual impropriety linked to figures such as Bill Gates, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and Peter Mandelson. But his connection to ...

The New York Giants and co-owner Steve Tisch may not be able to escape links to the Epstein files following a new and worrisome report. Late in January, the NY Giants got news that every major public ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in exploits, defenders might have hoped use of this tactic would decline. They were ...

Witness to ICE agents: 'you shot her in the f**king face'; says: 'I can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further' ...

What I think about some things I saw over the weekend … NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is scheduled to hold his Super Bowl news conference Monday. That’s just in time for Goodell to answer questions ...

Most publishers have no idea that a major part of their video ad delivery will stop working on April 30, shortly after Microsoft shuts down the Xandr DSP. For publishers that rely on Prebid and Google ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been dealt another blow as the Department of Justice drags its feet on the full, un-redacted release of the Epstein files. The lawmakers behind the Epstein Files ...