Cybercriminals use torrents to push malware disguised as the latest Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning movie.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the persistent growth and operational sophistication of Lumma Stealer, an info-stealing malware used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to target various industries.

Earlier this month, a coordinated disruption action targeting the Lumma malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer operation seized thousands of domains, part of its infrastructure backbone worldwide.

US, European, and Japanese authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma, an infostealer popular with criminal gangs.

The messages seemed innocuous, mundane even. Someone posing as a prospective guest emailed a hotel questions about a purported comment left on Booking.com. Another message was supposedly from that third-party booking site to review negative guest feedback.