{"id":7605,"date":"2026-03-30T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/russian-ctrl-toolkit-delivered-via-malicious-lnk-files-hijacks-rdp-via-frp-tunnels\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:12:14","slug":"russian-ctrl-toolkit-delivered-via-malicious-lnk-files-hijacks-rdp-via-frp-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/russian-ctrl-toolkit-delivered-via-malicious-lnk-files-hijacks-rdp-via-frp-tunnels\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian CTRL Toolkit Delivered via Malicious LNK Files Hijacks RDP via FRP Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that&#8217;s distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private key folders.<br \/>\nThe CTRL toolkit, according to Censys, is custom-built using .NET and includes various executables&#8221; to facilitate credential phishing, keylogging, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) hijacking, and reverse tunneling\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that&#8217;s distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private key folders.<br \/>\nThe CTRL toolkit, according to Censys, is custom-built using .NET and includes various executables&#8221; to facilitate credential phishing, keylogging, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) hijacking, and reverse tunneling\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that&#8217;s distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private key folders. The CTRL toolkit, according to Censys, is custom-built using .NET and includes various executables&#8221; to facilitate credential phishing, keylogging, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) hijacking, and reverse tunneling\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/russian-ctrl-toolkit-delivered-via-malicious-lnk-files-hijacks-rdp-via-frp-tunnels\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian CTRL Toolkit Delivered via Malicious LNK Files Hijacks RDP via FRP Tunnels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}