The Silent Cyber Heist: Why “Flow” Malware Could Be the Biggest Threat to Companies Today
In today’s hyper-connected world, cybercriminals no longer rely on brute-force attacks or flashy ransomware. The new frontier is stealth malware — programs that infiltrate networks quietly, hide in the operating system’s shell, and spread across devices like wildfire without raising alarms. One such threat, identified as “Flow” spyware , has been quietly compromising systems and may represent one of the largest silent data heists in motion. How the Infection Starts The attack vector is deceptively simple. A single device on a company’s network gets infected — maybe through a phishing email, a malicious link, or even something as innocent as a compromised emoji or image attachment. From there, Flow uses: Shared Wi-Fi networks (office & home) Phishing emails (with hidden code) Browser hijacking (through fake updates/extensions) Unicode text manipulation (to smuggle data invisibly) to spread itself further. Within hours, 1 infected machine can compromise...