{"id":226457,"date":"2025-12-04T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:20:37","slug":"microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CihGjqyQbYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft fixes the Windows LNK flaw CVE-2025\u20139491, a bug exploited by multiple state groups since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft fixes the Windows LNK flaw CVE-2025\u20139491, a bug exploited by multiple state groups since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}