Security teams must combine user education about pirated software with behavioral telemetry that flags suspicious child-process creation and outbound TLS beacons to unfamiliar domains if they hope to close the window that Lumma Stealer so deftly exploits. If hardware, locale, and security controls look profitable, the site serves a password-protected ZIP containing an innocuous-looking executable or PowerShell script engineered to bootstrap Lumma Stealer, all while evading casual inspection. Trend Micro analysts also identified a parallel push on GitHub and social platforms: automatically generated repositories advertise “HWID spoofers” or “Photoshop 2025 full crack,” yet the only release asset is the Lumma payload. Trend Micro researchers noted that June and July telemetry showed a rebound to pre-takedown volumes of targeted accounts, underlining both the malware’s resilience and the scale of users still hunting for pirated apps. In its new incarnation, Lumma is most often packaged inside counterfeit installers for sought-after software, luring users who search for “cracks,” “keygens,” or game cheats into downloading the Trojan instead of the promised free tool. With years of experience under his belt in Cyber Security, he is covering Cyber Security News, technology and other news. Cyber Security News is a Dedicated News Platform For Cyber News, Cyber Attack News, Hacking News & Vulnerability Analysis. Corporate accounts protected by multifactor authentication are not immune; stolen cookies often bypass login prompts, giving intruders immediate access to email, collaboration portals, or source-code repositories. Within weeks, telemetry again lit up with fresh command-and-control (C2) beacons, revealing that the information-stealing malware had swapped overt marketplace promotion for quieter channels while expanding its victim base. The consequences are severe, as they once executed, Lumma harvests browser cookies, crypto-wallet files, and cloud-storage session tokens, then exfiltrates them via an encrypted C2 channel. Victims are told to press Win + R and run a single-line PowerShell command, unwittingly spawning an in-memory loader that performs an XOR decrypt of an embedded .NET assembly—Lumma itself—then calls its entry point without ever touching the filesystem. Tushar is a Cyber security content editor with a passion for creating captivating and informative content.
This Cyber News was published on cybersecuritynews.com. Publication date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:55:08 +0000