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Following the LNK metadata trail
Talos Takes
English - February 03, 2023 15:00 - 11 minutes - 8.13 MBTechnology security cyber news security news cyber security news cisco talos snort incident response news roundup Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode of Talos Takes I am joined by security researcher Guilherme Venere to discuss their recent research on LNK files. The usage of these files by malicious actors has exploded over the last six months as actors look to move away from macro based initial infection vectors. LNK files do have unique metadata attributes to allows for useful actor and threat tracking capabilities. We'll dig deeper on LNK files as well as the metadata you can leverage. For full details check out the blog at https://blog.talosintelligence.com/following-the-lnk-metadata-trail/